Eladio Rodríguez González (July 27, 1864 – April 14, 1949) was a Galician language poet and author associated with the
Galicia region of
Spain
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. In 2001, he was honored in the
Galician Literature Day
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.
Background
He was a Spanish lexicographer and writer in Galician and Spanish. He was one of the forty founding members of the Royal Galician Academy, which he presided over between 1926 and 1934. He was also the author of a dictionary, the "Diccionario enciclopedico Gallego-Castellano", to which he dedicated his whole life, highly valued for its ethnographic content that was published posthumously.
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Eladio Rodríguez González*
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Writers from Galicia (Spain)
Linguists of Galician
1864 births
1949 deaths