Ramón de Mesonero Romanos

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Mesonero and the second or maternal family name is Romanos.

Ramón de Mesonero Romanos
Born	Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (1803-07-19)19 July 1803 Madrid, Spain
Died	30 April 1882(1882-04-30) (aged 78) Madrid, Spain
Seat e of the Real Academia Española
In office 25 February 1847 – 30 April 1882
Preceded by	Seat established
Succeeded by	José Echegaray

Statue in Madrid

Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (19 July 1803 – 30 April 1882) was a Spanish prose writer who was born in Madrid.

Biography

At an early age, he became interested in the history and topography of his native city. His Guía de Madrid (1831) was published when literature was at a low ebb in Spain, but the author's curious researches and direct style charmed the public. Next year, in a review entitled Cartas españolas, under the pseudonym "El Curioso Parlante", he began a series of articles on the social life of the capital, which were subsequently collected and called Panorama matritense (1835–1836).

Mesonero Romanos was elected to the Spanish Academy in 1838 and, though he continued to write, had somewhat outlived his fame when he issued his pleasing autobiography, Memorias de un Setentón, natural y vecino de Madrid (1880). He died in Madrid, shortly after the publication of his Obras completas (8 vols, 410, 1881). His place of burial is the Saint Isidore Cemetery in Madrid.

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mesonero Romanos, Ramón de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 179.