Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) was a Spanish philosopher, novelist, poet and essayist, the central figure of the Generation of 1898. Born in Bilbao, he became professor of Greek at the University of Salamanca in 1891 and later its rector, from which the dictator Primo de Rivera removed him and exiled him in 1924. His works include the novels Mist and Abel Sánchez, the novella Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr, the essays Life of Don Quixote and Sancho and Tragic Sense of Life (1913), and a large body of poetry. He died under house arrest in Salamanca in the first months of the Civil War, having denounced both sides.