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The Corporation joins the commemoration of the centenary of José Echegaray (27/10/2016)

Murcia City Council will join the commemoration of the centenary of José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832/1916), according to the agreement approved today unanimously Plenum.

Professor of Agriculture son of Alfonso X the Wise Institute, where he attended primary and high school studies, always felt murciano, and said so repeatedly.

In his theatrical Murcia fans, who would return decades later emerged, but in this interval was a mathematician, with certainly the most advanced of Spain, civil engineer, also with efficiency and professionalism of europeo- and political significance, towering military in the ranks of liberalism.

He became Minister of Finance in the First Republic, Governor of the Bank of Spain and Academic SAR.

As a playwright, he achieved success and public recognition both in Spain and beyond.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904, can be considered, without any exaggeration, as the only murciano Nobel Prize.

He wrote plays like that in his childhood he looked at the Romea Theater of Murcia, romantic and alarmist.

Coinciding with the centenary of his death, the House understands that there may be an opportunity for recognition of their excellence, and the city of Murcia, the right springboard to commemorate his career.

Among the events being organized by a group of intellectuals, who joined the Royal Academy Alfonso X the Wise, holding a round table on the character, in which several specialists in exact sciences, civil engineering is, politics and literature talk about every facet of the character, with the sole purpose of achieving the global vindication of his figure.

Also, the City Council placed a commemorative plaque on the side of the street that bears his name, next to the Teatro Romea.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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