Ernesto Guerra Da Cal (1911–1994) was a Galician writer and

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. An active Galician nationalist, he fought in the

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in the Republican side. He was one of the first theorists of Galician Reintegrationism. Exiled in the USA, he was

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of Spanish and comparative literature,

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. His son is the historian Enric Ucelay-Da Cal.

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1911 births 1994 deaths 20th-century philologists Queens College, City University of New York faculty Spanish philologists Spanish emigrants to the United States {{NewYork-bio-stub