Antonia Maymón, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Antonia Maymón

Spanish writer, feminist and anarchist

Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1881

Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Date of Death: 20-Dec-1959

Profession: writer, anarchist, trade unionist, feminist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Antonia Maymón

  • Antonia Rufina Maymón Giménez (18 July 1881 – 20 December 1959) was a Spanish rationalist pedagogue, militant naturist, anarchist, and feminist who published books on various topics. Antonia Rufina Maymón Giménez was born on July 18, 1881 in Madrid, Spain to a family from Aragon.
  • She studied to be a teacher in the 'Escuela Normal Femenina' of Zaragoza, a city where she also married professor Lorenzo Lagoon, an anarchist.
  • For her membership in the National Committee against the war in Morocco, she was tried and convicted, along with Teresa Claramunt and Josefa Lopez.
  • In those years, she published her first newspaper articles in various anarchist journals, as 'La Enseñanza Moderna' (Modern Education) and 'Cultura y Acción' (Culture and Action).
  • The couple was exiled to Bordeaux in 1911, but she received amnesty two years later after the death of her husband.
  • Upon her return, she spoke at rallies across the country and worked as a teacher in schools in Barcelona, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Elda and Beniaján.
  • Driving the naturist movement in Spain, she participated in and presided over congresses on these ideals in Bilbao and Malaga.
  • After the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, she moved to Beniaján, where she settled permanently.
  • There, she gave rallies for the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), held a school in her own home and developed an intense social work program among the needy.
  • In 1932, she published "Estudios Racionalistas", where she exhibited her educational thoughts regarding children's education regardless of social class.
  • At the end of the Spanish Civil War, she was convicted and imprisoned until 1944.
  • Two years later, she was arrested and imprisoned again for almost a year.
  • Her health impaired, she returned to her home Beniaján where she gave private lessons.
  • She died in a local hospital on 20 December 1959.

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