Antonio García de Solalinde (28 December 1892 in

Toro, Spain Toro is a town and municipality in the province of Zamora, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is located on a fertile high plain, northwest of Madrid at an elevation of . Toro is known as a center of Mudéjar art a ...

– 13 July 1937 in

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) was a writer, professor and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

Life

He was born in the town of

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in the province of Zamoro,

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. He was educated at the University of Madrid, receiving his ''Licenciado en Letras'', 1918, and his ''Doctor en Letras,'' 1924. He was director of the ''Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma'' (EEHAR) (Spanish School of

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and

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) and an important collaborator in the ''Revista de Filología Española'' (Magazine of Spanish Philology). Solalinde eventually relocated to the

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where he was employed as a professor at a number of diverse universities. He published a number of scholarly works, including

Milagros de Nuestra Señora ''The Miracles of Our Lady'' (Spanish: ''Milagros de Nuestra Señora'') is the main work of Gonzalo de Berceo. The work is a collection of exempla about twenty-five reported miracles of Mary, mother of Jesus, written around 1260 in a sort of Spa ...

, a treatise on

Gonzalo de Berceo Gonzalo de Berceo ( 1197 – before 1264) was a Spanish poet born in the Riojan village of Berceo, close to the major Benedictine monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla. He is celebrated for his poems on religious subjects, written in a style o ...

, and diverse articles relating to the work of king

Alfonso X of Castile Alfonso X (also known as the Wise, ; 23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284) was King of Castile, Kingdom of León, León and Kingdom of Galicia, Galicia from 1 June 1252 until his death in 1284. During the April 1257 Imperial election, election of 1 ...

and his relationship to the

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, Spain's seven part legal code that was followed for centuries both there and in

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, such as ''El códice florentino de las 'Cantigas' y su relación con los demás manuscritos'' (The Florentine codex of the 'Songs' and its relation with other manuscripts) and ''Intervención personal de Alfonso X en la redacción de sus obras'' (the personal Intervention of Alfonso X in the writing of his works). Solalinde was married to the writer and painter Jesusa Alfau Galván de Solalinde. He died in 1937 of a heart attack while an associate professor at the

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References

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Article about Alfonso X of Castile discussing Solalinde's scholarly contributions
1892 births 1937 deaths Spanish philologists Spanish male writers 20th-century philologists Spanish emigrants to the United States {{Spain-academic-bio-stub