José de Echegaray

José Echegaray was born in Madrid in 1832 and spent his childhood in Murcia. He graduated first in his class from the School of Civil Engineers in Madrid, where he taught mathematics and physics from 1854 to 1868. After the revolution of 1868, he entered the government and became successively Minister of Public Works and of Finance. He devoted himself fully to the theatre only from 1874. In 1904, he shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Frédéric Mistral, the first awarded to a Spaniard. He died in Madrid in 1916.

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