José María Soler García, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

José María Soler García

Spanish academic

Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1905

Place of Birth: Villena, Valencian Community, Spain

Date of Death: 25-Aug-1996

Profession: historian, archivist, archaeologist, anthropologist, linguist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Libra

José María Soler García was a Spanish archaeologist, historian, researcher and folklorist.
He is one of the persons who most deeply studied Villena and its surrounding area, since the vast majority of his research was focused on what concerned his hometown. In 1957 he founded Villena's Archaeological Museum with the findings he had collected from the 1920s on.
In 1963, after he found the Treasure of the Cabezo Redondo in March and the Treasure of Villena in December, the museum's name was officially changed to Archaeological Museum "José María Soler".
The José María Soler Foundation, constituted after his death, calls every year Research Awards in order to keep alive Soler's legacy.