Gonzalo Menéndez-Pidal facts for kids
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Gonzalo Menéndez-Pidal (April 12, 1911– December 11, 2008) was a Spanish historian, cartographer, cinematographer, photographer, and archivist. He was the youngest historian ever to be admitted to the Spanish Royal Academy of History. He was the son of Ramon Menendez Pidal and Maria Goyri de Menendez Pidal, who was the first woman to officially graduate from a Spanish University, the Universidad de Madrid.
Gonzalo Menendez-Pidal knew how to combine the family fascination for the history of the Iberian Peninsula with an interest in the latest technologies. Gonzalo Menendez-Pidal studied cinematography at the Film und Bildamt der Stadt Berlin. He filmed his experiences as he traveled about Spain in the time leading up to the Spanish Civil War. Most were anthropological documentaries; one set chronicles such as “La Barraca”, which he created with Federico García Lorca among others.
Gonzalo Menendez-Pidal excelled in photography. He recorded and catalogued bits of Spanish tools and hardware among other things.
His home in the mountains outside of Madrid was a photographic archive of the history of Spain that showed how Spain was built.
His archives are a tribute to the ingenuity of the Spaniards. His unabashed enthusiasm and scientific approach are well married in his many books about Spain.
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In Spanish: Gonzalo Menéndez-Pidal para niños
