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13 unusual facts about University of Salamanca


Álvaro de Bazán, 2nd Marquis of Santa Cruz

The other male of the family, Fernando, became Chancellor, Rector, of the University of Salamanca, and later, after ecclesiastical jobs at Seville and Cordoba, Archbishop of Palermo, Sicily, Italy .

Anthony Armstrong Emery

Armstrong Emery graduated in Law from the University of Nottingham and obtained a master's degree in Fiscal Law from the University of Salamanca, but claims never to have had any interest in entering the legal profession.

Diego de Torres Villarroel

After an elementary education he went on to study Latin under Juan González de Dios, who later became professor of humanities at the University of Salamanca.

Diego de Torres Villarroel (1693, Salamanca - 19 June 1770) was a Spanish writer, poet, dramatist, doctor, mathematician, priest and professor of the University of Salamanca.

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Quiñones

He was the second cardinal in the Mendoza family, studying at the University of Salamanca, one of the two prestigious Spanish universities.

Frank-Markus Barwasser

After working for the local newspaper, Main-Post, he studied political science, history and ethnology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Salamanca.

Germán Gullón

Gullón's career as a university professor began after he obtained a bachelor degree at the University of Salamanca (1969), where he wrote his M.A. Thesis with Fernando Lázaro Carreter and studied with Ricardo Senabre and José Luis Pensado.

Guy Bovet

From 1979 to 1999 he taught Spanish organ music at the University of Salamanca, and since 1989 he has been Professor of Organ at the Musikhochschule in Basel, Switzerland.

Joanna Lindén

She also attended the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain and at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru in Lima, Peru as an exchange student.

Juan Madrid

He studied in Madrid and gained a degree in Contemporary History from the University of Salamanca.

Justo Bolekia Boleká

He was Acting Professor of French Studies at the University of Salamanca from 1987 until 1990, he then became Assistant Professor of French Studies at the same university.

Pedro Abarca

Born in Aragon, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1641, and passed almost all his religious life as professor of scholastic, moral, and controversial theology, chiefly in the University of Salamanca.

Romy Schmidt

She received a law degree from the Central University of Chile (1994) and obtained a Masters in Disability at the University of Salamanca, Spain (1997).


Antonio Cañizares Llovera

Following his transfer to the Archdiocese of Madrid, Cañizares taught catechetical theology at the University of Salamanca and fundamental theology at the Conciliar Seminary of Madrid.

Antonio José Álvarez de Abreu, 1st Marquis of la Regalía

Antonio José Alvarez de Abreu (8 July 1688 in Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands, Spain – 28 November 1756), Marquis de la Regalía by King Philip V of Spain on 8 July 1738, the son of Sergeant Domingo Alvarez Hernandez and Maria Yañez Abreu, studied Latin and Philosophy at the Augustines Convent of La Laguna of Tenerife and graduated at the University of Salamanca being a "Bachiller" in 1707 and a "Licenciado" in law in 1711.

Domingo Patricio Meagher

He became a professor of philosophy at the University of Santiago and professor of theology at the universities of Salamanca and Valladolid.

Fernando de Valdés y Salas

Fernando de Valdés y Salas, (Salas, Asturias, 1483-Madrid, 1568, aged 85) was a Spanish churchman and jurist, Professor of Canon Law at the University of Salamanca, and later its Chancellor.

Javier Garciadiego

He joined El Colegio de México as a professor in 1991 and has worked as visiting scholar at St Anthony's College, University of Oxford; University of Chicago; Trinity College, Dublin; Complutense University of Madrid and University of Salamanca.

John of Segovia

Nothing is known of him before he took part in the Council of Basle, except that he was archdeacon at Villaviciosa, canon at Toledo, and professor of theology at the University of Salamanca.

Juan Donoso Cortés

At the age of eleven, he had finished his education in the humanities, and at twelve had begun the study of law at the University of Salamanca; at sixteen he received his degree of licentiate from the University of Seville, and at eighteen became professor of literature at the College of Caceres.

María Ángeles Ferrer Forés

She also wrote Tosca by Giacomo Puccini published by University of Salamanca (2007) and more than 100 articles in magazines, books, and notes for concerts and recitals.

Miguel de Unamuno

On 12 October 1936 the celebration of Columbus Day had brought together a politically diverse crowd at the University of Salamanca, including Enrique Pla y Deniel, the Archbishop of Salamanca, and Carmen Polo Martínez-Valdés, the wife of Franco, Falangist General José Millán Astray and Unamuno himself.