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Biography of Rafael Altamira Y Crevea
Name: Rafael Altamira Y Crevea
Birth Date: February 10, 1866
Death Date: June 1, 1951
Place of Birth: Alicante, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Gender: Male
Occupations: historian, literary critic, jurist
Rafael Altamira Y Crevea
The Spanish literary critic, historian, and jurist Rafael Altamira y Crevea (1866-1951) was, in his generation, the foremost Spanish proponent of the scientific method in history. He devoted his life as a jurist to international peace.Rafael Altamira was born in Alicante on Feb. 10, 1866. He formed a lifelong attachment to his native city and was once described by a disciple as a man with "a southern character, always enthusiastic and optimistic." He received his doctorate at the University of Madrid in 1887. His first major work, History of Communal Property (1888), established a European-wide reputation and was soon translated into Russian and German. His next work, The Teaching of History (1891), marked him as the major advocate of scientific historical writing in Spain. It gave a new direction to historical scholarship on the Peninsula.Altamira had already published critical literary articles as a student. He maintained this interest through his early years as a …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…court of justice, and in 1921 he was elected to the Permanent International Court at The Hague. Although he continued to teach and write on Latin American history as a professor at Madrid, he now devoted most of his energies to the cause of international peace, lecturing and writing on the subject in addition to his work on the Court.The Spanish Civil War drove him into exile, first to The Hague, then in 1940 to Bayonne, France, and finally in 1945 to Mexico City. He maintained his interest in historical scholarship to the end. In 1951 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but he died on June 1 before the vote was taken. Further Reading John E. Fagg's chapter, "Rafael Altamira," in Bernadotte E. Schmitt, ed., Some Historians of Modern Europe: Essays in Historiography by Former Students of the University of Chicago (1942), discusses Altamira's historical writing and his reforms in Spanish education.
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