Santos Juliá facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Santos Juliá
Born	16 September 1940  Ferrol
Died	23 October 2019  (aged 79) Majadahonda
Alma mater	Complutense University of Madrid
Occupation	Professor (1989–)
Employer	National University of Distance Education (1979–)
Awards	National History Award (2005) Francisco Umbral Prize for Book of the Year (2018) Medal of Merit in Research and University Education (2019)
Position held	Director General of Books and Libraries (1991–1991)

Santos Juliá Díaz (16 September 1940 – 23 October 2019) was a Spanish historian and sociologist.

Biography

Born in Ferrol in 1940, he spent some of his first years in Vigo, moving soon to Seville, where he studied at the Instituto San Isidoro. He took studies in Theology, but graduated in Sociology. He was a strong admirer of Manuel Azaña.

Juliá joined the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) as lecturer in 1979, earning a PhD in Political Science and Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid with a dissertation elaborated in the 1980s. Since 1980, Juliá wrote pieces as columnist for El País. He obtained the Chair of Social History and Political Thought at the UNED in 1989. He died on 23 October 2019 in Majadahonda (Madrid).

Works

• — (1984). Madrid, 1931–1934. De la fiesta popular a la lucha de clases. Madrid: Siglo XXI.
• — (1997). Los socialistas en la política española.
• — (2004). Historias de las dos Españas.
• — (2008). Vida y tiempo de Manuel Azaña (1880-1940).
• — (2010). Hoy no es ayer.
• — (2011). Elogio de historia en tiempo de memoria.
• — (2017). Transición. Historia de una política española (1937-2017). Barcelona: Crítica.

See also

In Spanish: Santos Juliá para niños