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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 September 1547, 1547
- Died
- 22 April 1616, 23 April 1616, 1616
- Conflict
- Battle of Lepanto
- Place of birth
- Alcalá de Henares
- Place of death
- Madrid
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Miguel
- Family name
- Cervantes, de Cervantes
- Father
- Rodrigo de Cervantes
- Mother
- Leonor de Cortinas
- Child
- Isabel de Saavedra
- Field of work
- fiction, literature, theatre, military affairs
- Occupation
- novelist, playwright, poet, lyricist, soldier, writer, accountant, tax collector, Kammerdiener, seaman
- Citizenship
- Crown of Castile
- Native language
- Early Modern Spanish
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- artist files at
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives
- cause of death
- type 2 diabetes
- date of baptism
- 9 October 1547
- depicted by
- Statue of Miguel Cervantes, Naupactus
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Iedereen Leest, Library of the World's Best Literature, Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Lexicon van de jeugdliteratuur, Norsk Haandlexikon
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Estudio de la Villa, University of Salamanca
- ethnic group
- Spaniards
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Geldersch Landschap en Kasteelen, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Royal Collections of the Netherlands
- influenced by
- Heliodorus of Emesa, Lope de Vega, Amadis de Gaula, Garcilaso de la Vega, Guzmán de Alfarache
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Early Modern Spanish, Spanish
- list of works
- Q20388037
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
- name in native language
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- nickname
- El manco de Lepanto
- notable work
- Don Quixote, Exemplary Novels
- place of burial
- convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians
- place of detention
- Algiers
- second family name in Spanish name
- Saavedra
- studied by
- Q89031952
- topic's main category
- Category:Miguel de Cervantes
- unmarried partner
- Ana de Villafranca y Rojas
- writing language
- Early Modern Spanish
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