Blas Taracena Aguirre Explained

Blas Taracena Aguirre
Birth Name:Martín Almagro Basch
Birth Date:1895, December 1
Birth Place:Soria Spain
Death Date:1951, February 1
Death Place:Madrid Spain
Nationality:Spanish
Employer:Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España
Occupation:archaeologist

Blas Taracena Aguirre (Soria, 1 December 1895 – Madrid, 1 February 1951[1]), Spanish archaeologist.

Biography

Blas Taracena Aguirre directed the Museum Numantino (Soria, Spain) and excavations at Numantia. His investigations covered the near zones of Soria, as well as Rioja and mainly Navarra. He continued the works of his teacher José Ramón Mélida, headed the Museum Numantino and held important positions in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain.

In 1939 he was appointed the Director of the National Archaeologic Museum of Spain, till 1943 he was the Secretary of the Institute of the CSIC.

He is the author of an extensive bibliography and has been awarded with several national and international awards. 1918–1919 he was deputy director of regional magazine Castilla in Soria.[2]

Works

Bibliography

Pasamar Alzuria, Gonzalo; Peiró Martín, Ignacio (2002). Diccionario Akal de Historiadores españoles contemporáneos. Ediciones Akal. .

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Notes and References

  1. Pasamar Alzuria y Peiró Martín, 2002, p. 609.
  2. Sánchez, Isidro. Camarasa, Toledo y Castilla, una arrebatadora relación. En: "Archivo secreto, revista cultural de Toledo", nº 2 (2004), p. 199-235