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Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez (21 February 1870 in Granada, Spain – 7 June 1970 in
Biography (Spanish) (Universidad de Alcalá).
20th-century Spanish historians 1870 births 1970 deaths Spanish centenarians Men centenarians 20th-century Spanish archaeologists Architecture academics {{spain-historian-stub
Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez (21 February 1870 in Granada, Spain – 7 June 1970 in Madrid
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, Spain), was a Spanish archaeologist and historian.
Biography
Martinez was born 21 February 1870 in Granada, Spain. He is the son of noted painter and amateur archaeologist, Manuel Gómez-Moreno González and Dolores Martínez Almirón. He authored many books, nearly 300, mostly focused onHispanic
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archeology and art history. During the first years of the twentieth century he wrote '' Catálogo Monumental y artístico de España'' (en: ''Monumental and Artistic Catalog of Spain'').
Gómez-Moreno was named Doctor honoris causa
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by the universities of Montevideo and Oxford
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in 1941, Glasgow in 1951 and Granada in 1970. One of his students was Hispanic art historian, José María de Azcárate.
See also
* San Pedro de la NaveReferences
External links
*Biography (Spanish) (Universidad de Alcalá).
20th-century Spanish historians 1870 births 1970 deaths Spanish centenarians Men centenarians 20th-century Spanish archaeologists Architecture academics {{spain-historian-stub