Juan Menéndez Pidal

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Menéndez and the second or maternal family name is Pidal.

Juan Menéndez Pidal
Born	Juan Menéndez Pidal (1858-05-31)31 May 1858 Madrid, Spain
Died	28 December 1915(1915-12-28) (aged 57) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Seat A of the Real Academia Española
In office 24 January 1915 – 28 December 1915
Preceded by	Luis Pidal y Mon
Succeeded by	Mariano de Cavia

Juan Menéndez Pidal (1858, in Madrid – 1915) was a Spanish archivist, jurisconsult, historian, and poet, brother of Luis and Ramón Menéndez Pidal. He was long a director of the Archivo Histórico Nacional at Madrid, and a director of the Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas, y Museos.

Born in Madrid, he studied law until he obtained his title, and then devoted himself to journalism. His Dios y César, an ecclesiastical and legal study of the relation of church and state, attracted much attention. In 1914 he was elected a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of the Language.

See also

• List of archivists

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Works by or about Juan Menéndez Pidal at the Internet Archive