Aureliano Fernández-Guerra y Orbe (16 June 1816 – 7 September 1894) was a Spanish

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, epigrapher and

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, also remembered as a

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and

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Biography

Fernández-Guerra became a member of the

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from 1860 and served as its Archivist and Librarian from 1872.

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1816 births 1894 deaths Members of the Royal Spanish Academy 19th-century Spanish historians Spanish male dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Spanish poets Spanish male poets 19th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights 19th-century male writers 19th-century Spanish archaeologists {{spain-poet-stub