About Santos Juliá
Lived 1940 – 2019 (aged 78–79). Santos Juliá was a Spanish historian, sociologist and political scientist.
Santos Juliá Díaz (16 September 1940 – 23 October 2019) was a Spanish historian and sociologist.
Biography Born in Ferrol in 1940, he spent some of his first years in Vigo, moving soon to Seville, where he studied at the Instituto San Isidoro. He took studies in Theology, but graduated in Sociology. with a dissertation elaborated in the 1980s. Since 1980, Juliá wrote pieces as columnist for El País. He obtained the Chair of Social History and Political Thought at the UNED in 1989. He died on 23 October 2019 in Majadahonda (Madrid).
In November 2019 he was awarded, posthumously, with the Gold Medal of Merit in Research and University Education.
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(Awarded with the 2005 National Award of History.)
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Who was Santos Juliá?
Spanish historian
When was Santos Juliá born?
Santos Juliá was born in 1940 in Ferrol.
When did Santos Juliá die?
Santos Juliá died on 23 October 2019 in Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda.
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Santos Juliá was a historian, sociologist and political scientist.
What nationality was Santos Juliá?
Santos Juliá was Spanish.
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