Luis Díez del Corral y Pedruzo (5 July 1911, in

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– 7 April 1998, in

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) was a Spanish

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, writer and

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. He was legal counsel and a deputy in the

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from 1943–49, during the first legislative sessions of the Franco Period and was the chief of the "Section for Corporate and Social Management" of the Institute for Political Studies (now the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies).

Biography

He began preparing for his legal career at the

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. Thanks to a scholarship, he was able to continue his studies at the

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and the

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. In 1936, he became a lawyer with the

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. As the author of many books on the relationship between history and politics, in 1947 he obtained the Chair for "History of Political Ideas and Methods" on the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at the

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for his travel book, ''Mallorca''. In 1988, he was awarded the

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in the Social Sciences, "for his exceptional contribution to the history of political ideas and institutions, and for his exemplary work teaching in the humanistic, conservative tradition". In 1996, he won the

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, for his lifetime achievements. He was a member of the

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, the

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and President of the

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, as well as being a

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at the

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. In 1953, he became a member of the

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Selected works

English

* ''The Rape of Europe'', translated by H. V. Livermore, Allen-Unwin (1959) * ''Majorca'', translated by Michael Byrne, drawings by E. C. Ricart, Allen-Unwin (1963)

Spanish

* ''Ensayos Sobre Arte y Sociedad'', Revista de Occidente (1955) * ''Del Viejo al Nuevo Mundo'', Revista de Occidente (1963) * ''La Monarquía de España en el Pensamiento Político Europeo. De Maquiavelo a Humboldt'', Revista de Occidente (1976) * ''Velázquez, la Monarquía e Italia'', Lectorum (1979) * ''El Liberalismo Doctrinario'', Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 4th ed. (1984) * ''El Pensamiento Político de Tocqueville'', Alianza (1989)

References

External links

Dialnet: Complete works of Díez del Corral
{{DEFAULTSORT:Diez del Corral, Luis Spanish political scientists Spanish jurists 1911 births 1998 deaths 20th-century political scientists Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid