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Birth of Alfredo Brañas

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Birth of Alfredo Brañas

Historical milestone · Carballo, Bergantiños, A Coruña

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Alfredo Brañas, ideologue of 19th-century Galician regionalism, was born in Carballo on 11 January 1859, the son of a land registrar, and died in Santiago de Compostela on 21 February 1900. He studied Law at the University of Santiago, where he became secretary general, and worked as a lawyer and as professor of Natural Law in Oviedo and of Political Economy in Santiago. In 1889 he published in Barcelona El regionalismo. Estudio sociológico, histórico y literario, a work accepted by all sectors of Galicianism as a mandatory reference and which also had a great impact on Catalan regionalism; in 1890 he was honoured in Santiago at an event that united all Galicianist currents for the first time, and that same year he took part in the creation of the Asociación Regionalista Gallega.

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