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Ramiro de Maeztu

Born

in Vitoria, Spain

May 04, 1874

Died

October 29, 1936

Genre

Nonfiction

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Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney was a Spanish political theorist, journalist, literary critic, occasional diplomat and member of the Generation of '98.

Maeztu was born to a Basque father and an English mother in Vitoria, the capital of Alava province, on May 4, 1875.

He was among the young Spanish intellectuals deeply affected by their country's humiliating defeat in Spanish-American War of 1898, along with José Martínez Ruiz ("Azorín"), Pío Baroja and others forming the literary Generation of '98. His first collection of essays was published in 1898 under the name "Hacia otra España" ("Towards a Different Spain").

An early advocate of Socialism, he became disillusioned by the Great War while serving as the London correspondent for several Spanish Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney was a Spanish political theorist, journalist, literary critic, occasional diplomat and member of the Generation of '98.

Maeztu was born to a Basque father and an English mother in Vitoria, the capital of Alava province, on May 4, 1875.

He was among the young Spanish intellectuals deeply affected by their country's humiliating defeat in Spanish-American War of 1898, along with José Martínez Ruiz ("Azorín"), Pío Baroja and others forming the literary Generation of '98. His first collection of essays was published in 1898 under the name "Hacia otra España" ("Towards a Different Spain").

An early advocate of Socialism, he became disillusioned by the Great War while serving as the London correspondent for several Spanish newspapers, traveling in France and Germany.

After returning to Spain, Maeztu rejected many of his radical friends and argued that human reason alone was not enough to solve social problems, and argued for the importance of strong authority and tradition rooted in the Roman Catholic Church. These ideas were embodied in his 1916 book, Authority, Liberty, and Function in the Light of the War, first published in English, and later in Spanish as La crisis del humanismo (1919).

Maeztu became one of the most prominent defenders of the regime of Miguel Primo de Rivera, and called for Spain to "recover its 16th-century sense of Roman Catholic mission."[1] In 1926 his literary essays were published in Don Quijote, Don Juan y La Celestina, and in 1928 he served as Spanish ambassador to Argentina.

Along with Pedro Sainz Rodríguez and others, Maeztu founded the right-wing, monarchist Acción Española movement in 1931. In 1934, his final published book was written, Defensa de la hispanidad ("In Defense of Spanishness"), advocating "a return to pure Spanishness" and strongly condemning Liberalism and the French Revolution's slogan "Liberté, égalité, fraternité".

On October 29, 1936, Maeztu was murdered by Republican soldiers in the early days of the Spanish Civil War while near Madrid.

His younger sister was the Spanish educator and feminist, María de Maeztu who founded the Residencia de Señoritas and the Lyceum Club in Madrid, and his younger brother was the painter Gustavo de Maeztu who has a museum named for him in the Palace of the Kings of Navarre in Estella, Spain. ...more

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	Defensa de la Hispanidad 4.04 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1931 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don Quijote, Don Juan y La Celestina. 3.97 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1938 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hacia otra España 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La crisis del humanismo: Los principios de autoridad, libertad y función a la luz de la guerra: Una crítica de la autoridad y de la libertad como fundamentos ... y un intento de basar liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El sentido reverencial del dinero by Ramiro de Maeztu, Ignacio García de Leániz Caprile (Foreword) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Artículos desconocidos (1897-1904) . (BIBLIOTECA DE PENSAMIENTO) (Spanish Edition) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Debemos a Costa (Colección Biblioteca Nacional de España) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Defensa de la Hispanidad: En Defensa de la Hispanidad, Maeztu se propone recordar el papel jugado por España en la Historia universal, y la necesidad ... para recuperar ese papel. by Ramiro de Maeztu, Ariel Alonso del Alamo (editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Esta España de ahora, que vive como si estuviera de más en el mundo, no es sino la sombra de aquella otra que fue el brazo de Dios en la tierra”
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“No hay en la historia universal obra comparable a la realizada por España, porque hemos incorporado a la civilización cristiana a todas las razas que estuvieron bajo nuestro influjo”
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