Juan Menéndez Pidal
Spanish poet and historian
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| Intro | Spanish poet and historian | |
| Places | Spain | |
| is | Historian Poet Jurist Archivist Lawyer | |
| Work field | Law Literature Social science | |
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| Birth | Madrid | |
| Death | Madrid |
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Juan Menéndez Pidal (1861–1915) was a Spanish archivist, jurisconsult, historian, and poet, brother of Luis and Ramón Menéndez Pidal. He was long a director of the Archivo Histórico Nacional at Madrid, and a director of the Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas, y Museos.
Born in Madrid, he studied law until he obtained his title, and then devoted himself to journalism. His Dios y César, an ecclesiastical and legal study of the relation of church and state, attracted much attention. In 1914 he was elected a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of the Language.