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Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez (21 February 1870 in Granada, Spain – 7 June 1970 in Madrid, Spain), was a Spanish archaeologist and historian.
Biography (Spanish) (Universidad de Alcalá).
20th-century Spanish historians 1870 births 1970 deaths Spanish centenarians Men centenarians 20th-century Spanish archaeologists Architecture academics {{spain-historian-stub
Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez (21 February 1870 in Granada, Spain – 7 June 1970 in Madrid, Spain), was a Spanish archaeologist and historian.
Biography
Martinez was born 21 February 1870 in Granada, Spain. He is the son of noted painter and amateur archaeologist,Manuel Gómez-Moreno González
Manuel Gómez-Moreno González (26 June 1834 – 20 December 1918) was a Spanish painter, amateur archaeologist and professor. His son was the noted historian and archaeologist, Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez.
Biography
He was born to a ...
and Dolores Martínez Almirón.
He authored many books, nearly 300, mostly focused on Hispanic archeology and art history. During the first years of the twentieth century he wrote '' Catálogo Monumental y artístico de España'' (en: ''Monumental and Artistic Catalog of Spain'').
Gómez-Moreno was named Doctor honoris causa
An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad hono ...
by the universities of Montevideo and Oxford in 1941, Glasgow in 1951 and Granada in 1970. One of his students was Hispanic art historian, José María de Azcárate.
See also
*San Pedro de la Nave
San Pedro de la Nave ("St. Peter of the Nave") is an Early Medieval church in the province of Zamora, Spain. It is in the locality of El Campillo in the municipal unit of San Pedro de la Nave-Almendra. It was moved from its original site near th ...
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*Biography (Spanish) (Universidad de Alcalá).
20th-century Spanish historians 1870 births 1970 deaths Spanish centenarians Men centenarians 20th-century Spanish archaeologists Architecture academics {{spain-historian-stub