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Américo Castro

Spanish historian (1885-1972) · Spain · Writers · Died at 87

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Américo Castro Quesada was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising controversy with his conclusions that Spaniards did not become the distinct group that they are today until after the Islamic conquest of Hispania of 711,...

A life in dates

1972Died25 July 19721953Guggenheim FellowshipAward1935Honorary Doctor of the University of PoitiersAward1921Honorary Doctor of the University of ToulouseAward1885Born4 May 1885

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Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship1953
Honorary Doctor of the University of Poitiers1935
Honorary Doctor of the University of Toulouse1921
Officer of the Legion of Honour

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Child: Carmen Castro

About this person

Américo Castro Quesada was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising controversy with his conclusions that Spaniards did not become the distinct group that they are today until after the Islamic conquest of Hispania of 711, an event that turned them into an Iberian caste co-existing among Moors and Jews, and that the history of Spain and Portugal was adversely affected with the success in the 11th to the 15th centuries of the "Reconquista" or Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula and with the Spanish expulsion of the Jews (1492).

Country
Spain
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1885 to 1972 · aged 87

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