Negrín's granddaughter Carmen Negrín handed over 150,000 original documents that he had transferred to France in several shipments to save them from destruction
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Juan Negrín
Juan Negrín López was a Spanish physician and politician who served as prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic. He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and of the left-leaning Popular Front government during the Spanish Civil War. He also served as minister of finance and minister of defence. He was the last Republican prime minister of Spain (1937–1939), leading the governme…
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science · Prime Minister of Spain from 1937 to 1939 · politician · university teacher · physician · professor · physiologist · head of government · finance minister · also Juan Negrín, Juan Negrin, Negrín
Born 3 February 1892 · Died 12 November 1956 · Q312757
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2013· 1 entry
2010· 1 entry
A Spanish documentary film, Ciudadano Negrín (Citizen Negrín), directed by Sigfrid Monleón, Imanol Uribe and Carlos Álvarez Pérez was released
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2008· 1 entry
Following the outcomes of more impartial historical research by Hugh Thomas, Moradiellos, Helen Graham, Gabriel Jackson, Miralles, Paul Preston and Ángel Viñas, that cleared Negrín of most of the unjustified allegations
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2005· 1 entry
“Fundamentals of critical argumentation”
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1986· 1 entry
“Third World Ideology and Western Reality”
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1956· 4 entries
Died 1956-11-12.
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“Con heroísmo desarmado no se puede ofrecer resistencia eficaz. Esa ha sido la causa de nuestros pasados infortunios. No otra.”
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“España es el primer baluarte contra el totalitarismo.”
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“Hemos sido las primeras víctimas. Tened cuidado. No seremos las únicas.”
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1948· 1 entry
Negrín spoke out in favour of Franco's Spain's participation in the post-war Marshall Plan, which was opposed by the Spanish Republican government in exile
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1946· 1 entry
But he was posthumously rehabilitated in 2008
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1941· 1 entry
To die shortly thereafter in poverty after having been illegally expropriated of all his property
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1938· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of National Defence (1938–1939).
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1937· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Council of Ministers (1937–1939).
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1936· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Cortes republicanas (1936–1939).
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Career landmark: Minister of the Treasury of Spain (1936–1938).
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1935· 1 entry
“Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions”
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1934· 2 entries
Requested a leave of absence from his professorship
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“The Tragedy of the Political Exiles”
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1933· 2 entries
“The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism”
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Career landmark: Member of the Cortes republicanas (1933–1936).
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1931· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Cortes republicanas (1931–1933).
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1923· 1 entry
His youngest daughter died in childbirth, which Negrín himself attended
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1919· 1 entry
Obtained his medical degree in Spain, and in 1922, aged 29, he became a professor of physiology at the Physiology Department at the Complutense University of Madrid Medical School
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1912· 1 entry
(when he was only twenty years old) under the guidance of Theodor von Brücke he obtained a doctorate in medicine and was immediately incorporated into the Institute of Physiology in Leipzig as a research assistant and th
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1908· 1 entry
To specialize in medical physiology, he moved to Leipzig, to the best physiology institute of Germany and even in Europe
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1906· 1 entry
Attracted by the enormous prestige of German universities at the time
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-02-03.
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