Emilio González López

EMILIO GONZ? LEZ LOPEZ

(1903-1991)



"I soon realized that neither a diplomatic passport or

enough titles to remake life in the

U.S. and prepared to be an immigrant more. "

Emilio Gonzalez Lopez.



EXILED teacher's voice



Professor Emilio Gonzalez Lopez, professor of criminal law at several Spanish universities, courts and deputy general manager of the Local Government comes to the United States in 1939, and the following year he joined the Department of Romance Languages ​​at Hunter College, New York, where he became head of the Doctoral Program in Spanish from the City University of New York. She teaches at the same time courses of lectures at the Faculty of Law at the University of Panama. For many years he was in charge of the prestigious summer courses Middelbury College. Upon retirement was recently honored with the title "Emiritus Teacher" for that university. Its activities in the United States are directed towards literature and history. His first literary-critical contribution was his book Dona Emilia Pardo Bazán, a novelist of Galicia (1944). The study was printed by the Hispanic Institute in the USA, Columbia University. On his land, now seen from plural perspective, wrote another book, Galicia, soul and culture (1954). However, it should be noted that his most ambitious work is his monumental History of Galicia, of which twelve volumes were published.

Emilio Gonzalez Lopez was born in A Coruña on November 13, 1903 and died in New York on December 19, 1991. Secondary School in his hometown and law at the University of Madrid, where his PhD in 1929, which is incorporated into teaching as an adjunct professor of criminal law at the Universidad Central. He was founder and first secretary general of the Spanish University Federation (FUE). On September 5, 1929 Meets with Santiago Casares Quiroga, Antonio Villar Ponte and other intellectuals of Galicia, in Santiago de Compostela casino to create a new Republican party as an autonomous, which was called ORGA (Autonomous Galician Republican Organization), also participated in the following year, in the creation of the FRG (Galician Republican Federation). In 1931 he was Professor of Criminal Law at the University of La Laguna, and later in Salamanca, Oviedo, Valencia and Barcelona. In June 1931 he was elected to the Constituent Cortes of the ORGA-FRG bid of A Coruña. From 1931 to 1933 serves the general direction of the Local Administration. In the elections of February 1936 obtained a seat in A Coruña in the candidacy of Republican Left within the Popular Front.

After the military uprising of General Franco is incorporated in September 1936, the Galician People's Militia Battalion in front of Toledo. The Republican government appointed him in late 1936 Swiss consul general and secretary of the Spanish Delegation to the League of Nations. At the end of the contest went into exile in the United States, taking up residence in New York, where he worked actively with organizations in Galicia. During the last years of his life he made frequent visits to Galicia.



Besides the works cited, highlight, History of Spanish civilization, the college spirit, the general theory of crime rise and fall of the Kingdom of Galicia, Memoirs of a liberal student, The Habsburg Galicia, Memoirs of a member of the Courts of the Republic, Memoirs of a Republican representative in the Spanish Civil War, the drama of Valle-Inclán and the narrative art of Pio Baroja: trilogies. Apart from many scattered articles in publications as well known as? Consul and Modern Hispanic Magazine.



Francisco Arias Solis



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