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José María Soler García
Monument to José María Soler in Villena
Monument to José María Soler in Villena
Born (1905-09-30)September 30, 1905
Villena, Spain
Died August 25, 1996(1996-08-25) (aged 90)
Villena
Occupation Archaeologist, Historian, Researcher, Folklorist, Mail carrier, Accountant
Language Spanish
Period 1930-1996
Tesoro de Villena
Treasure of Villena, the second biggest gold finding in Europe.

José María Soler García was a Spanish archaeologist, historian, researcher and folklorist. He is one of the persons who most deeply studied Villena and its surrounding area, since the vast majority of his research was focused on what concerned his hometown.

In 1957 he founded Villena's Archaeological Museum with the findings he had collected from the 1920s on. In 1963, after he found the Treasure of the Cabezo Redondo in March and the Treasure of Villena in December, the museum's name was officially changed to Archaeological Museum "José María Soler". The José María Soler Foundation, constituted after his death, calls every year Research Awards in order to keep alive Soler's legacy.

Awards

In addition, Villena's City Hall gave his name to one street in the old part of the city in 1979.

See also

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