Carlos Seco Serrano

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Carlos Seco Serrano (born November 14, 1923 in Toledo , † April 12, 2020 in Madrid ) was a Spanish historian .

Life

Carlos Seco Serrano was the son of a Spanish military man who was killed in the service of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War . He completed his bachelor's degree in philosophy and literature in 1945 at the Universidad Central de Madrid. 1950 followed the doctorate in history with the diplomatic relations between Spain and Venice in the time of Philip III. as a subject. He studied with historians such as Ciriaco Pérez Bustamante and Jesús Pabón . From 1957 to 1975 he was Professor of General and Contemporary Spanish History at the University of Barcelona and from 1975 to 1989 of Contemporary History of Spain at the Complutense University of Madrid .

Seco was a member of various scientific societies, including Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona , Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Real Academia de la Historia . For his work Militarismo y civilismo en la España contemporánea , published in 1984 , he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Historia de España in 1986 . In 1996 he was awarded the Spanish Military Order of Merit and in 2002 the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise .

The historians Julio Gil Pecharromán and Antoni Jutglar are among his most famous doctoral students .

On April 12, 2020, Seco died at the age of 96 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Works (selection)

  • Obras de D. Martín Fernández de Navarrete (1954)
  • Obras de D. Mariano José de Larra (1960)
  • Obras de D. Francisco Martínez de la Rosa (1962)
  • Memorias de Manuel Godoy, Príncipe de la Paz (1965)
  • Obras de D. Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (1967)
  • Alfonso XIII y la crisis de la restauración (1969)
  • Sociedad, literatura y política en la España del siglo XIX (1973)
  • Tríptico Carlista (1973)
  • Godoy, el hombre y el político (1978)
  • Viñetas históricas (1983)
  • Militarismo y civilismo en la España contemporánea (1984)
  • Professor Carlos Seco Serrano. Haciendo historia (1989)
  • Al correr de los días. Crónicas de la transición (1994)
  • María Cristina de Habsburgo y la regencia (1885–1902) (1994)
  • Paisaje y figura del 98 (1997)
  • Estudios sobre el reinado de Alfonso XIII (1998)
  • Historia del conservadurismo español (2000)
  • Alfonso XIII (2001)
  • Alfonso XIII en el centenario de su reinado (2002)
  • La España de Alfonso XIII (2002)
  • De los tiempos de Cánovas (2004)
  • Alfonso XII (2007)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Muere el historiador Carlos Seco Serrano a los 96 años , heraldo.es , accessed on April 13, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Seco Serrano, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo , Spain
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2020
Place of death Madrid , Spain