Santos_Juliá

Santos Juliá

Santos Juliá

Spanish historian (1940–2019)


Santos Juliá Díaz (16 September 1940 – 23 October 2019) was a Spanish historian and sociologist.

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Biography

Born in Ferrol in 1940,[1] he spent some of his first years in Vigo, moving soon to Seville,[2] where he studied at the Instituto San Isidoro.[3] He took studies in Theology, but graduated in Sociology.[2] He was a strong admirer of Manuel Azaña.[2]

Juliá joined the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) as lecturer in 1979,[2] earning a PhD in Political Science and Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid[4] with a dissertation elaborated in the 1980s.[5] Since 1980, Juliá wrote pieces as columnist for El País.[6] He obtained the Chair of Social History and Political Thought at the UNED in 1989.[7] He died on 23 October 2019 in Majadahonda (Madrid).[8][9]

Works

  • (1984). Madrid, 1931–1934. De la fiesta popular a la lucha de clases. Madrid: Siglo XXI.[10]
  • (1997). Los socialistas en la política española.[11]
  • (2004). Historias de las dos Españas.[n. 1]
  • (2008). Vida y tiempo de Manuel Azaña (1880-1940).[11]
  • (2010). Hoy no es ayer.[11]
  • (2011). Elogio de historia en tiempo de memoria.[11]
  • (2017). Transición. Historia de una política española (1937-2017). Barcelona: Crítica.[12]

References

Informational notes
  1. Awarded with the 2005 National Award of History.[11]
Citations
  1. Forcadell Álvarez, Carlos (2017). "Historiadores en el siglo XXI: los tránsitos del contemporaneísmo desde Aragón". In Forcadell, Carlos; Frías, Carmen (eds.). 20 años de Congresos de Historia Contemporánea. (1997-2016) (PDF). Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico. p. 161. ISBN 978-84-9911-437-8.
  2. Rojo, José Andrés (Oct 23, 2019). "Muere Santos Juliá, el gran historiador del siglo XX español". El País. Retrieved Oct 24, 2019 via elpais.com.



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