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Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Spanish dramatist (1600-1681)
Wikipedia ↗
Images on Commons ↗
Wikidata (Q170800) ↗
Details
Instance of
human
Born
17 January 1600
, 1600
Died
25 May 1681
, 1681
Place of birth
Madrid
Place of death
Madrid
Sex or gender
male
Given name
Pedro
Family name
Calderón de la Barca
Child
Pedro José Calderón de la Barca
Sibling
Diego Calderón de la Barca
,
Dorotea Calderón de la Barca
,
José Calderón
Movement
Baroque literature
Genre
theatre
,
comedy
,
drama fiction
Field of work
theatre
Occupation
playwright
,
poet
,
military personnel
,
writer
,
Catholic priest
,
cleric
,
librettist
Position held
Chaplain of the King of Spain
Citizenship
Spain
Native language
Early Modern Spanish
Religion
Catholicism
archives at
Bavarian State Library
birth name
Calderón de la Barca Henao de la Barreda y Riaño
chivalric order
Order of Santiago
described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
,
Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
,
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
,
BEIC Digital Library
,
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
,
Library of the World's Best Literature
,
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
,
Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921
,
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5
,
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
documentation files at
SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
educated at
University of Salamanca
,
University of Alcalá
,
Colegio Imperial de Madrid
has works in the collection
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
languages spoken, written or signed
Spanish
member of
Order of Santiago
,
Congregation of Secular Priests of Saint Peter the Apostle
name in native language
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
notable work
Life is a Dream
,
The Constant Prince
,
The Great Theater of the World
,
El médico de su honra
,
The Mayor of Zalamea
,
El mágico prodigioso
,
Q16493626
,
Q5492719
,
The Phantom Lady
,
El Pintor
place of burial
Madrid
relative
Rosa Calderón
religious order
Franciscans
subject named as
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
topic's main category
Category:Pedro Calderón de la Barca
writing language
Spanish
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
Life is a Dream
The Mayor of Zalamea
The Great Theater of the World
The Phantom Lady
El médico de su honra
El mágico prodigioso
The Constant Prince
To God by Reason of State
Love, Honor and Power
A House with Two Doors Is Difficult to Guard
El Pintor
A María el corazón
Depicted in
Monument to Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Madrid
Nothing in the MetaHistoryBook collection references this item yet.
Authority files
VIAF ↗
Library of Congress ↗
GND ↗
BnF ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica ↗
Treccani ↗
Influenced
Friedrich Schiller
Percy Bysshe Shelley