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Salvador de Madariaga
Madariaga in 1936
1st President of the Liberal International
In office 20 April 1948 – 18 April 1952
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Roger Motz
Seat M of the Real Academia Española
In office 2 May 1976 – 14 December 1978
Preceded by	Emilio Gutiérrez Gamero [es]
Succeeded by	Carlos Bousoño
Personal details
Born	Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo 23 July 1886 A Coruña, Spain
Died	14 December 1978(1978-12-14) (aged 92) Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
Nationality	Spanish British
Other political affiliations	Mont Pelerin Society
Spouses	Constance Helen Margaret ​ ​(m. 1912; died 1970)​ Emilia Rauman ​(m. 1970)​
Children	2, Isabel and Nieves
Occupation	Writer Diplomat Scholar
Awards	Charlemagne Prize (1973)

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

Background

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. At that time, he first came into contact with "Generación del 14" intellectuals.

In 1916, he abandoned that for work in London as a journalist for The Times newspaper. Meanwhile, he began publishing his first essays. In 1921, he became a press member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations and chief of the Disarmament Section in 1922. In 1928, he was appointed Professor of Spanish at Oxford University for three years during which he wrote a book on nation psychology, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards.

In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic appointed Madariaga as Spanish ambassador to the United States and a permanent delegate to the League of Nations; he kept the latter post for five years. Chairing the Council of the League of Nations in January 1932, he condemned Japanese aggression in Manchuria in such vehement terms that he was nicknamed "Don Quijote de la Manchuria". 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.

In July 1936, as a classical liberal he went into exile in England to escape the Spanish Civil War. There, he became a vocal opponent of and organised resistance to the Nationalists and the Spanish State of Francisco Franco.

In 1947, he was one of the principal authors of the Oxford Manifesto on liberalism. He participated in the Hague Congress in 1948 as president of the Cultural Commission and he was one of the co-founders in 1949 of the College of Europe.

In his writing career he wrote books and essays about Don Quixote, Christopher Columbus, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the history of Latin America. He militated in favour of a united and integrated Europe. He wrote in French and German, Spanish, Galician (his mother tongue) and English.

In 1973, he won the Karlspreis for his contributions to the European idea and European peace. In 1976, he returned to Spain after Franco's death, and became a member of the Spanish Royal Academy.

Personal life and death

In 1912 de Madariaga married Constance Archibald, a Scottish economic historian. The couple had two daughters, Nieves Mathews (1917–2003) and professor and historian Isabel de Madariaga (1919–2014). Constance died in May 1970. In November 1970, de Madariaga married Emilia Székely de Rauman who had been his secretary since 1938 (who died in 1991, aged 83).

Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo died age 92 on 16 December 1978, in Locarno, Switzerland.

Awards and recognition

Madariaga received numerous prizes in his lifetime, including:

• Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Spain (1936)
• Hansischer Goethe-Preis, University of Hamburg (1972)
• Charlemagne Prize (1973)

Legacy

The Madariaga European Foundation has been named after him and promotes his vision of a united Europe making for a more peaceful world. The 1979–1980 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.

An Oxfordshire blue plaque in honour of Salvador de Madariaga was unveiled at 3 St Andrew's Road, Headington, Oxford by his daughter Isabel on 15 October 2011.

Works

Madariaga wrote books in Spanish, English, French, and German. His best known is the novel El Corazón de Piedra Verde (Heart of Jade).

Selected books

• The Sacred Giraffe: Being the Second Volume of the Posthumous Works of Julio Arceval (1925) (science fiction novel)
• 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)

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Notes

1. Elected on 20 May 1936

References

1. ^ "Salvador de Madariaga, Writer, Ex-Diplomat, Dies". Washington Post. 15 December 1978. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
2. "Nomination Database". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
3. ^ "Salvador de Madariaga". Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
4. Stanley G. Payne, Spain's First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931-1936 (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), 159.
5. Plaque
6. "Madariaga, Salvador de". Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
7. "search on Madariaga". The Atlantic. Retrieved 16 February 2023.

External links

• Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation Archived 19 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• Madariaga tennis Club in A Coruña.
• Madariaga European College.
• Archival sources by and on Salvador de Madariaga can be consulted at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence
• Newspaper clippings about Salvador de Madariaga in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
• Washington Post obituary

• 1886 births
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