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Julio Cejador y Frauca
1864–1927
A tireless scholar of Spanish language and literature, he moved across fields from philology and criticism to lexicography and Cervantes studies. His work aimed wide, sweeping views of literary history, and it made him a notable intellectual figure in Spain around the turn of the 20th century.
3 Audiobooks
Historia de la lengua y literatura castellana, Tomo 1 : Desde los orígenes hasta Carlos V
by Julio Cejador y Frauca
Cabos sueltos: Literatura y lingüística
by Julio Cejador y Frauca
Historia de la lengua y literatura castellana, Tomo 2 : Época de Carlos V
by Julio Cejador y Frauca
About the author
Born in Zaragoza on January 7, 1864, and died in Madrid on January 1, 1927, Julio Cejador y Frauca was a Spanish philologist, literary critic, historian of Spanish literature, lexicographer, epigraphist, Hellenist, orientalist, and specialist in Cervantes. The broad range of those interests helps explain why his name appears in so many corners of Spanish literary and linguistic scholarship.
Sources consulted during this session agree that he was an important scholarly figure in Spain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Biographical accounts describe early studies in Tudela and France, followed by a period in the Society of Jesus, while reference sources especially emphasize his later reputation as a professor and man of letters.
He is especially remembered for ambitious studies of the Spanish language and literary tradition, including large-scale historical work on Castilian language and literature. For listeners coming to his books today, the appeal is his unusually wide learning: he wrote with the confidence of someone trying to connect language, history, and literature in one long conversation.