When and where was Miguel de Unamuno born?
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born on the 29th of September 1864 in Bilbao, a bustling port city within the Basque Country.
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born on the 29th of September 1864 in Bilbao, a bustling port city within the Basque Country.
Miguel de Unamuno developed an existentialist philosophy centered on the concept of intrahistoria which prioritized the small histories of anonymous people over major wars or political pacts. He published his most famous philosophical essay The Tragic Sense of Life in 1912 to explore how human activity stems from the knowledge that we will die.
Miguel de Unamuno served as rector during two periods: from 1900 to 1924 and again from 1930 until 1936. General Miguel Primo de Rivera removed him from his university chairs in 1924 over protests from other intellectuals before he returned home in 1930.
A photograph discovered in 2018 shows Millán Astray and Miguel de Unamuno calmly saying goodbye without tension between them. This image appeared in the newspaper The Advancement of Salamanca on the 13th of October 1936.
Miguel de Unamuno called his key work Niebla a nivola to distinguish it from the supposedly fixed form of the traditional novel. His works synthesized virtually all of his thought into brief narratives about spiritual anguish, time, death, and the pain provoked by silence of God.