Ángel González Álvarez

Ángel González Álvarez (born August 11, 1916) was a Spanish philosopher and professor of metaphysics who worked in Argentina and Spain. He was the Director General of Secondary Education in Spain from 1962 to 1967. Career Álvarez attended secondary school in Ponferrada before obtaining a teaching degree at the León Teacher Training College. He then began studying philosophy at the University of Valladolid until the Spanish Civil War, after which he finished his Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Madrid in 1946. His thesis was titled "El tema de Dios en la filosofía existencial (The Theme of God in Existential Philosophy)", and was supervised by . Later that year, he began teaching metaphysics at the University of Murcia. In 1949, he traveled to Argentina to participate in the First National Congress of Philosophy in Mendoza. In 1950, he founded the Cuyo Philosophical Society where he served as president. In 1954, he began working as the chair of metaphysics at the University of Madrid. He also served as the General Director of Secondary Education from 1962 to 1967. The unveiling ceremony was attended by Álvarez's son Jesús González, as well as the then mayor of Astorga Arsenio García.

Works Álvarez produced more than 75 different books, some of them being: