ABSTRACT

Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, member of an intellectual renaissance in Spain sometimes called the “Generation of ‘23,” was born to Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz and Teresa Menduiña Jové in Avila on 7 April 1893, on the same day that his father took the oath of office as delegate from Avila in the National Cortes (parliament). In some ways reminiscent of the historian-politicians of the nineteenth century, Don Claudio supplemented his scholarly endeavors by serving as a member of the Constituent Cortes, as ambassador of the Republic to Portugal, and finally for a time as head of the Spanish Republican government in exile. Sánchez-Albornoz’s secondary education was completed in Madrid at the Escuelas Pias. He then enrolled in the Central University of Madrid to study both in the School of Law and that of Philosophy and Letters.