Juan Menéndez Pidal

Spanish historian and poet (1858-1915)

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Juan Menéndez Pidal

Born	Juan Menéndez Pidal (1858-05-31)31 May 1858 Madrid, Spain
Died	28 December 1915(1915-12-28) (aged 57) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish


Seat A of the Real Academia Española
In office 24 January 1915 – 28 December 1915
Preceded by	Luis Pidal y Mon [es]
Succeeded by	Mariano de Cavia [es]^[a]

Juan Menéndez Pidal (1858, in Madrid – 1915) was a Spanish archivist, jurisconsult, historian, and poet, brother of Luis and Ramón Menéndez Pidal. He was long a director of the Archivo Histórico Nacional at Madrid, and a director of the Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas, y Museos.

Born in Madrid, he studied law until he obtained his title, and then devoted himself to journalism. His Dios y César, an ecclesiastical and legal study of the relation of church and state, attracted much attention. In 1914 he was elected a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of the Language.

Notes

^ de Cavia was elected for the position in 1916 but never took the seat

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)