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Birth of Isidro Parga Pondal

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Birth of Isidro Parga Pondal

Historical milestone · Laxe, Bergantiños, A Coruña

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Born in 1900, the geologist who would draw up the petrographic map of Galicia and found a geological laboratory in his home town, which became a reference centre for the study of the Galician massif. Isidro Parga Pondal was born in Laxe on 17 December 1900, great-nephew of the poet Eduardo Pondal. He studied Chemistry in Madrid, received his doctorate in 1934 and from 1923 was a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he set up the Laboratorio de Xeoquímica and trained the first Spanish geochemists. At the start of the Civil War he was expelled from his chair after being denounced by Tomás Batuecas Marugán and never returned to university teaching; he retired to Laxe, where in 1938 he took charge of the management of the company Kaolines de Lage S.A. He died in A Coruña in 1986.

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