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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer, also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing. He is one of the most important figures in Spanish literature, with some considering him the most read Spanish writer after Miguel de Cervantes. He adopted the alias of Bécquer as his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a p…
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culture · Spanish poet and writer (1836–1870) · short story writer · playwright · writer · narrator · poet · painter · draftsperson · musician · also Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Dominguez Bastida, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, Gustavo A. Bécquer
Born 17 February 1836 · Died 22 December 1870 · Q203715
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1870· 2 entries
Died 1870-12-22.
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Valeriano fell ill and died on September 23
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1865· 1 entry
Bécquer stopped writing for the prolific literary section of the newspaper El Contemporáneo, where he had finally gained fame as a writer, and began writing for two others, El Museo Universal and Los Tiempos, the latter
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1861· 1 entry
Bécquer met Casta Esteban Navarro, and married her in May 1861
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1855· 1 entry
Valeriano arrived in Madrid, and Gustavo went to live with his brother
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1854· 1 entry
Moved to Toledo with his brother Valeriano, a lovely place in which he was able to write his book: "History of the Spanish temples"
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1853· 1 entry
At the age of seventeen, he moved to Madrid to follow his dream of making a name for himself as a poet
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1850· 1 entry
Got him admitted as a pupil into the studio of Don Antonio Cabral Bejarano, at the Santa Isabel de Hungría school
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1836· 2 entries
Born 1836-02-17.
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In Sevilla, Spain, with the last name of Domínguez Bastida, but he chose his Flemish father's second last name of Bécquer, as the family was known around town
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