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Princess of Asturias Awards 05/26/2020

Miguel Artola Gallego Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, has died

The Jury has bestowed the Award in 1991 for his “exemplary vocation to historical research and teaching regarding questions and episodes of basic importance to the formation of contemporary Spain”

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Miguel Artola Gallego, 1991 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, has died.

As stated in the Minutes of the Jury, he was granted the Award for “his exemplary vocation to historical research and teaching regarding questions and episodes of basic importance to the formation of contemporary Spain. His research work has shed light upon the extended, dramatic period from the Ancien Regime to our days, offering a vision of the whole which combines analysis of the institutions and an understanding of underlying social and political realities.

Chaired by Enrique Fuentes Quintana, the Jury was made up of Pío Cabanillas Gallas, Victoria Camps, Joaquín Estefanía, Ángel Fernández Noriega, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Luis González Seara, Juan Luis Iglesias Prada, Luis Martínez Noval, Víctor Mendoza Oliván, Raúl Morodo, Víctor Pérez Díaz, and José López-Muñiz y González- Madroño, as acting secretary.

The Awards Ceremony, which took place on 18th October, and was presided over by HM King Felipe VI, the then Prince of Asturias. Besides the address by His Majesty, the speeches at the ceremony were given by Rafael Hernández Colón, governor and representative of Puerto Rico’s People; Sadako Ogata, then President of ACNUR; and Plácido Arango, then President of the Prince of Asturias Foundation.

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