Juana Capdevielle | |
Birth Name: | Juana María Clara Capdevielle San Martín |
Birth Date: | 12 August 1905 |
Birth Place: | Madrid, Kingdom of Spain |
Death Place: | Rábade, Spanish Republic |
Death Cause: | Execution by shooting |
Burial Place: | Rábade cemetery |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Employer: | Biblioteca Nacional de España University of Madrid Ateneo de Madrid |
Organization: | Faculty of Archivists, Librarians and Archaeologists |
Citizenship: | French Republic (until 1930) Spanish Republic |
Alma Mater: | University of Madrid |
Occupation: | Librarian, archivist, pedagogue |
Spouse: | Francisco Pérez Carballo |
Juana Capdevielle (12 August 1905 – 18 August 1936) was a Spanish educator and librarian.
Juana Capdevielle was born in Madrid and went to Pamplona to study at a high school. She moved back to Madrid in order to pursue a university education and later travelled to France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium. After she married Francisco Pérez Carballo, governor of La Coruña, she moved to Galicia.[1] Her husband was arrested and shot by the rebel military in July 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Shortly thereafter, on 18 August, she was arrested by the Guardia Civil. On the following morning her body was found in Rábade; she had been killed by Nationalist forces. Juana was pregnant at the time of her murder.[2]