Manuel Fernández Álvarez

Spanish author

Manuel Fernández Álvarez (7 November 1921 – 19 April 2010) was a Spanish historian, academic and writer.

Biography

He was the son of Enrique Fernández and María Álvarez.^[1]

In 1942 he graduated in Philosophy at the University of Valladolid.^[2]

He was professor at the University of Salamanca (and after retirement profesor emérito).

He died on 19 April 2010 aged 88 due to a complication after a heart surgery.^[3]

Books

• La sociedad espanola en el Siglo de Oro
• La sociedad espanola del Renascimiento, 1985
• Carlos V, el cesar y el hombre, 2000
• Corpus monumental de Carlos V, Salamanca, 1973-1981
• Carlos V: un hombre para Europa
• Isabel la Catolica
• Felipe II y su tiempo
• La Gran Aventura de Cristobal Colon, Espasa Calpe, 2006

References

1. "Manuel Fernández Álvarez". Diccionario Biográfico Español (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2018.^{[permanent dead link]}
2. "La Biblioteca de... Manuel Fernández Álvarez". Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish). 22 September 2008. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
3. Constenla, Tereixa (19 April 2010). "Fallece a los 88 años el historiador Manuel Fernández Álvarez". El País (in Spanish). PRISA. Retrieved 18 February 2017.