Santos Juliá
Santos Juliá Díaz was a Spanish historian and sociologist.Biography
Born in Ferrol in 1940, he spent some of his first years in Vigo, moving soon to Seville, where he studied at the Instituto San Isidoro. He took studies in Theology, but graduated in Sociology. He was a strong admirer of Manuel Azaña.
Juliá joined the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia as lecturer in 1979, earning a PhD in Political Science and Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid with a dissertation elaborated in the 1980s. Since 1980, Juliá wrote pieces as columnist for El País. He obtained the Chair of Social History and Political Thought at the UNED in 1989. He died on 23 October 2019 in Majadahonda.Works
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