Honorific Prefix: | His Excellency |
Miguel Dongil y Sánchez | |
Birth Date: | 1987 |
Birth Place: | Gijón, Principality of Asturias, Spain |
Office: | Communications Advisor to the Afro-Bolivian Royal House |
Term Start: | 2012 |
Office2: | Grand Chancellor of Europe of the Royal Order of Merit of Prince Uchicho |
Term Start2: | 2013 |
Monarch2: | Julio I |
Education: | University of Oviedo University of A Coruña |
Occupation: | historian |
Website: | migueldongil.com |
Miguel Dongil y Sánchez, Duke of Dongil (born 1987) is a Spanish historian and academic. He was appointed by King Julio I of the Afro-Bolivians to serve as the Communications Advisor for the Afro-Bolivian monarchy and as Grand Chancellor of Europe of the Royal Order of Merit of Prince Uchicho. He was ennobled by Julio I, becoming the Duke of Dongil.
Dongil y Sánchez was born in 1987 in Gijón, Principality of Asturias.[1]
He graduated in 2010 from the University of Oviedo with a degree in history.[1] He completed postgraduate studies at the University of Oviedo, the National University of Distance Education, and at the Pontifical University of Saint Anthony.[1] He received a doctorate in history from the University of A Coruña in 2017.[1] [2]
In November 2023, he led an educational conference in Asturias titled From Asturias to the Dominican Republic.[3]
Dongil y Sánchez served on the research staff at the University of Oviedo from 2011 to 2015 as a history professor.[1] From 2014 to 2018, he was a researcher and professor at the Pontifical University of Salamanca.[1]
In 2018, he was employed by the Universidad Católica de Santo Domingo as a Christian historian.[4] [5] In 2019, he was hired by the federal government of the Dominican Republic as an international consultant in higher education.[6] He serves as the vice president of the Dominican Academy of Genealogy and Heraldry.[7]
He was appointed by Julio I, the King of the Afro-Bolivians, to serve as the monarchy's communications advisor in 2012.[8] He was named a Knight of the Grand Collar of the Royal Order of Merit of Prince Uchicho and was appointed to serve as the order's Grand Chancellor of Europe in 2013.[8] [1] Dongil y Sánchez was ennobled by Julio I as the Duke of Dongil.[8]