Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas

Spanish writer, poet, playwright and politician (1791-1865)

1791 – 1865 ·

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Born: 10 March 1791, Córdoba
Died: 22 June 1865, Madrid
Citizenship: Spain
Worked in: Madrid
Movement: Romanticism, Neoclassicism
Position held: member of the Congress of Deputies, ambassador of Spain to France, president of the State Council, President of the Council of Ministers, ministro de Gobernación, Minister of the Spanish Navy, Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, member of the Real Academia de la Historia, Director de la Real Academia Española, Ambassador of Spain to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Member of: Royal Spanish Academy, Royal Academy of History
Awards: Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Order of Santiago, Knights Hospitaller, Order of the Golden Fleece, Knight of Pius IX
Buried at: San Isidro Cemetery
birth name: Ángel de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano
child: Gonzalo de Saavedra y Cueto, Enrique de Saavedra, Teobaldo de Saavedra y Cueto
described by source: Nordisk familjebok, Ensayo de un catálogo de periodistas españoles del siglo XIX (1903-1904), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Norsk Haandlexikon
family name: Saavedra
given name: Ángel
instance of: human
languages spoken, written or signed: Spanish
member of political party: Moderate Party
military, police or special rank: general
name in native language: Ángel de Saavedra
noble title: Duke of Rivas
sex or gender: male
spouse: María de la Encarnación Cueto
writing language: Spanish

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Ángel de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano, 3rd Duke of Rivas (Spanish: Ángel de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano, Duque de Rivas; 10 March 1791 – 22 June 1865) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and politician who was Prime Minister of Spain in 1854. He is best known for his play Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino (Don Álvaro, or the Force of Fate) (1835), the first romantic success in the Spanish theater.

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