José Amador de los Ríos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

José Amador de los Ríos

Spanish historian

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1818

Place of Birth: Baena, Andalusia, Spain

Date of Death: 17-Feb-1878

Profession: writer, poet, politician, historian, playwright, art historian, archaeologist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About José Amador de los Ríos

  • José Amador de los Ríos y Serrano (30 April 1818 – 17 February 1878) was a Spanish intellectual, primarily a historian and archaeologist of art and literature.
  • He was a graduate in history of the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1844 he was the secretary of the Comisión Central de Monumentos.
  • He was co-director with Antonio de Zabaleta of the ephemeral Boletín Español de Arquitectura, the first Spanish journal dedicated exclusively to architecture.
  • It was only in publication from 1 June to December 1846.
  • In 1852 he published the complete works of Íñigo López de Mendoza.
  • It was Amador de los Ríos who first used the term mudejarismo to describe a form of architectural decoration in 1859. In 1861 he published the first volume of Historia crítica de la literatura española, the first general history of Spanish literature written in Spain.
  • It was to remain incomplete.
  • Ideologically Amador de los Ríos, a liberal and romantic, conceives of Spain as a unit, at once Roman Catholic and Castilian, a constitutional monarchy (thought it was not one yet) united with its past by an idea luminosa (luminous idea).
  • Countering the foreign historians who regard medieval Spain as a backwater, he defends Spanish literature as the foremost among those which appeared after the Fall of Rome.
  • Though he only covered the Middle Ages, he demonstrated that he regarded Spanish American literature as part of the Spanish tradition.
  • In another work, Historia social, política y religiosa de los judíos de España, he accepts the Spanish Jewish literature as part of the tradition, since it "bloomed" in Spanish soil.
  • Unlike Adolf de Castro, however, he did not condemn the Spanish Inquisition.

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