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Luis Monguió
Luis Monguió Primatesta (born June 25, 1908, in Tarragona, Spain; died July 10, 2005, in Clifton Park, New York) was an American Hispanist, professor of Spanish, and department head at the University of California-Berkeley. Life and work Monguió studied law and philology in Barcelona and Madrid. From 1930 to 1938 he was in the Spanish diplomatic service in Valparaíso, Chile, and in French Morocco. He participated, on the Second Spanish Republic, Republican side, in the Battle of the Ebro (1938) in the Spanish Civil War. In 1939 he went with his American wife Helen Arnett de Monguió (†1977) to the United States, and studied Hispanic literature in University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley under :de:Arturo Torres Rioseco (M.A., 1941). In 1942 he enlisted in the United States Army, and remarked that he was one of very few who participated in both the Battle of the Ebro and the Battle of the Bulge. In 1944 he became a U.S. citizen. From 1941 to 1942 and from 1946 until 1957 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarragona
Tarragona (, ; Phoenician: ''Tarqon''; la, Tarraco) is a port city located in northeast Spain on the Costa Daurada by the Mediterranean Sea. Founded before the fifth century BC, it is the capital of the Province of Tarragona, and part of Tarragonès and Catalonia. Geographically, it is bordered on the north by the Province of Barcelona and the Province of Lleida. The city has a population of 201,199 (2014). History Origins One Catalan legend holds that Tarragona was named for ''Tarraho'', eldest son of Tubal in c. 2407 BC; another (derived from Strabo and Megasthenes) attributes the name to ' Tearcon the Ethiopian', a seventh-century BC pharaoh who campaigned in Spain. The real founding date of Tarragona is unknown. The city may have begun as an Iberian town called or , named for the Iberian tribe of the region, the Cossetans, though the identification of Tarragona with Kesse is not certain. William Smith suggests that the city was probably founded by the Phoenicians, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
