Francisco Mateos Gago

Francisco Mateos Gago y Fernández (15 June 1827 – 29 October 1890) was a Spanish priest and integralist intellectual who served as the Full Professor of Theology at the University of Seville and as dean of the same college.

Biography

He studied Sacred Theology at the University of Seville, later becoming a Doctor on the subject at the Major Seminary of Granada and the Central de Madrid.

Gago served as a teacher for many years at the Seminario conciliar de San Isidoro y San Francisco Javier at Seville, holding several professorships before being ordered a priest. He was also a professor at the Seminary of Cádiz for a brief period of time. Originally a staunch carlist, he rejected the movement in 1888 and joined the Integrist Party of Ramón Nocedal. His main works as a theologian and apologist were afterwards compiled in various tomes under the name Colección de opúsculos.

A fervent opposer of darwinism, he was protagonist of many conflicts with fellow professor Antonio Machado Núñez (1815-1896). Gago would later found the Sevillan Academy for Archeological Studies.

His remains are placed on the Panteón de Sevillanos Ilustres in Seville, where he served as Cathedral canon. Since 1893, one street of the city center bears his name. One of the main streets of Grazalema, his birth town, was also named after him.

Works Carta a Don Federico Rubio con motivo de su discurso en las Cortes de febrero de 1869 (Seville, 1869) Colección de opúsculos. Tomo I (Sevilla, 1869). ———. Tomo II (Seville, 1877). ———. Tomo III (Seville, 1877). ———. Tomo IV (Seville, 1879). ———. Tomo V (Seville, 1881). ———. Tomo VI (Seville, 1884). ———. Tomo VII (Seville, 1887). La iglesia de San Miguel de Jerez de la Frontera. Contestación a una carta de Don Modesto de Castro (Jerez, 1873) Juana la Papisa. Contestación a un articulista papisero de Santander (Seville, 1878) El análisis filosófico de la escritura y lengua hebreas (Seville, 1882) Catálogo abreviado de la colección de monedas y medallas, etc. (Seville, 1892) Sobre los errores históricos del Señor Don Emilio Castelar (Madrid, 1899)