Antón Fraguas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antón Fraguas

Spanish poet who wrote in Galician

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1905

Place of Birth: Loureiro, Galicia, Spain

Date of Death: 05-Nov-1999

Profession: historian, geographer, anthropologist, ethnographer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Antonio Fraguas Fraguas (or Antón Fraguas Fraguas) was born in Insuela, Loureiro parish (Cerdedo-Cotobade), on December 28, 1905, and died in Santiago de Compostela on November 5, 1999.
He was an important Galicianist historian, ethnographer, anthropologist, and geographer.
In 1923 he and some of his fellows founded the Sociedade da Lingua, whose main goals were the defense of the Galician language and the creation of a dictionary.
He was a member of Irmandades da Fala and Seminario de Estudos Galegos and was high school professor after the Spanish Civil War broke out.
He was part of the Father Sarmiento Institute for Galician Studies and the Royal Galician Academy, and was director and president of the Museum of the Galician People, member of the Council of Galician Culture, and a chronicler of Galicia.
He spent his life studying Galician culture and its territory from different perspectives, with a special focus and mastery on anthropology.