Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo

✶November 3, 1856

†May 19, 1912

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Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo was a Spanish scholar, historian and literary critic. Even though his main interest was the history of ideas, and Hispanic philology in general, he also cultivated poetry, translation and philosophy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.

Spanish scholar (1856–1912)

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