Manuel Polo y Peyrolón, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Manuel Polo y Peyrolón

Spanish politician

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1846

Place of Birth: Cañete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Date of Death: 26-Mar-1918

Profession: writer, lawyer, politician, professor, historian, philosopher

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Manuel Polo y Peyrolón (1846 – 1918) was a Spanish writer, theorist, academic, and politician.
He is best known as the author of 5 novels falling in-between Romanticism and Realism; classified as part of costumbrismo, they are currently considered second-rate literature.
As a philosopher he stuck to neo-Thomism and focused mostly on confronting Krausism.
In education he represented the Catholic regenarationism, fiercely pitted against the Liberal current.
In politics he was active within Carlism; his career climaxed during the 1896-1898 term in the Congress of Deputies and during the 1907-1915 terms in the Senate.