Salvador de Madariaga

Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo (23 July 1886 – 14 December 1978) was a Spanish "eminent liberal", diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize and awarded the Charlemagne Prize in 1973.

Early life Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was born on 23 July 1886 in A Coruña, Galicia, Kingdom of Spain. He graduated with a degree in engineering in Paris, France.

Career Madariaga returned to Spain and became an engineer for the Northern Spanish Railway Company. He then came into contact with Generación del 14 intellectuals. From 1932 to 1934, he served as ambassador to France. In 1933, he was elected to the National Congress and served as both Minister for Education and Minister for Justice.

Works

Madariaga wrote books in Spanish, English, French and German. Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards: An Essay in Comparative Psychology, Oxford University Press, 1929 Disarmament, Coward-McCann, 1929 Anarchy or Hierarchy, Macmillan, 1937 Christopher Columbus, Macmillan, 1940 The Rise of the Spanish-American Empire, Hollis & Carter; Macmillan, 1947 The Fall of the Spanish-American Empire, Hollis & Carter, 1947; Macmillan, 1948 Bolivar, Hollis & Carter, 1952 Morning without Noon, 1973 El Corazón de Piedra Verde, 1942 (Heart of Jade) War in the Blood (sequel to Heart of Jade) Spain: a Modern History Hernán Cortés – Conqueror of Mexico, Macmillan, 1941 The Blowing up of the Parthenon, 1960 On Hamlet, Hollis & Carter, 1948 Latin America, Between the Eagle and the Bear, Praeger, 1962

Poetry The Serene Fountain (1927) Elegy on the Death of Unamuno (1937) Elegy at the Death of Federico García Lorca (1938) Rose of Silt and Ashes (1942) Romances for Beatriz (1955) She who Smells of Thyme and Rosemary (1959) Poppy (1965)

Articles "Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard," The Atlantic (April 1928) "An Admirable Variety: Further Diversities of National Character," The Atlantic (September 1928) "Disarmament--American Plan," The Atlantic (April 1929) "Spain: The Politics," The Atlantic (March 1937)