Alcalá de Henares is a Spanish city in the Community of Madrid. Straddling the Henares River, it is located 35 kilometres to the northeast of the centre of Madrid. As of 2018, it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated municipality.
Dámaso Berenguer y Fusté, 1st Count of Xauen was a Spanish general and politician. He served as Prime Minister during the last rales of the reign of Alfonso XIII.
Sebastian Fox Morcillo (1526?–1559?), a Spanish scholar and philosopher, was born in Seville between 1526 and 1528. Around 1548 he studied in Leuven. Following the example of the Spanish Jew Judas Abarbanel, he published commentaries on Plato and Aristotle, in which he endeavoured to reconcile their teachings. In 1559 he was appointed tutor to Don Carlos, son of Philip II, but he was lost at sea on his way to Spain to take up the post.
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg was a Spanish Jesuit and mystic.
Francisco Moreno-Fernández is a Spanish dialectologist and sociolinguist.
The Guadalajara railway station is a railway station owned by ADIF that serves the Spanish city of Guadalajara. There is another station outside the urban limits 5 km away from the city on the Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line called Guadalajara–Yebes railway station.
Pablo Martín Asuero is a Spanish scholar from the Basque Country. He specialises in Middle Eastern history, and has directed the Cervantes Institute in Istanbul and Damascus.
Julián Juderías y Loyot was a Spanish historian, sociologist, literary critic, journalist, translator and interpreter.
Juan Arañés was a Spanish baroque composer. His tonos and villancicos follow the style of those preserved in the Cancionero of Kraków.
Federico Martínez Roda is a professor of history at the Valencia Catholic University.
The Libros del saber de astronomía del rey Alfonso X de Castilla, "Books of wisdom of astronomy of King Alfonso X of Castile", is a series of books of the medieval period, composed during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile. They describe the celestial bodies and the astronomical instruments existing at the time. The collection is a group of treatises on astronomical instruments, like the celestial sphere, the spherical and plane astrolabe, saphea, and universal plate for all latitudes, for uranography or star cartography that can be used for casting horoscopes. The purpose of the rest of the instruments, the quadrant of the type called vetus, sundial, clepsydras, is to determine the time, which was also needed to cast the horoscope. The king looked for separate works for the construction and use of each device.
Juan de la Cuesta (?-1627) was a Spanish printer known for printing the first editions of Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) and the Novelas ejemplares (1613), by Miguel de Cervantes, as well as the works of other leading figures of Spain's Golden Age, such as Lope de Vega.
Diego Martínez Torrón is a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Córdoba, Spain, and a writer, author of essays, poetry and novels. He has been a speaker at many of the major universities in Europe and the United States. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish literature he has published numerous books on Spanish Romanticism, with interpretive contributions and unpublished texts. He has edited the most faithful edition of the complete works of authors such as José de Espronceda and the Duque de Rivas. He has also written about Lista and Quintana and the work of Spanish progressive liberals from the early nineteenth century to the end of the period of Romanticism. He has studied the poetic thought of Juan Ramón, Octavio Paz and José Bergamin. He has also dedicated numerous studies to the works of Cervantes. He has studied the narrative of Álvaro Cunqueiro, Juan Benet, Azorín and has published the first annotated edition of El Ruedo Ibérico of Valle-Inclán. His concept of literary methodology stems from a new, non-Marxist approach to the binomial ideology and literature. He has edited Don Quixote, studying the thinking of Cervantes.
Blanca López de Mariscal o Blanca Guadalupe López Morales is a Professor emeritus and researcher in literature at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, México.
Antoni Palau Dulcet , librarian and bibliographer, author of the monumental Manual del librero hispano americano, Conca de Barbera (1912),and numerous guides from "Montblanc, Poblet i la Conca" (1930-1932).
Ana Santos Aramburo is a Spanish librarian who has been the director of the National Library of Spain since February 2013.
Jean Canavaggio is a French biographer and former emeritus professor of Spanish literature at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.
Jerónimo Cortés was a Spanish mathematician, astronomer, naturalist and Valencian compiler.
The Statue of Emilia Pardo Bazán is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Located next to the calle de la Princesa, it is dedicated to Emilia Pardo Bazán.
