Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas

Details

Instance of

human

Born

10 March 1791, 19 March 1791

Died

22 June 1865

Place of birth

Córdoba

Place of death

Madrid

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Ángel

Family name

Saavedra

Spouse

María de la Encarnación Cueto

Child

Gonzalo de Saavedra y Cueto, Enrique de Saavedra, Teobaldo de Saavedra y Cueto

Movement

Romanticism, Neoclassicism

Occupation

writer, poet, playwright, politician

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, Prócer del Reino, Senator of the Kingdom

Citizenship

Spain

Awards

Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Order of Santiago, Knights Hospitaller, Order of the Golden Fleece, Knight of Pius IX

birth name

Ángel de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano

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

languages spoken, written or signed

Spanish

member of

Royal Spanish Academy, Royal Academy of History

member of political party

Moderate Party

military, police or special rank

general

name in native language

Ángel de Saavedra

noble title

Duke of Rivas

notable work

Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino

place of burial

San Isidro Cemetery

work location

Madrid

writing language

Spanish

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