Manuel bartolome cossio el greco biography

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Art historian, educational theorist, professor and El Greco scholar; co-founder of Summa artis, historia general del arte. He attended the Central University in Madrid enrolling in philosophy and literature courses and studying art history and archeology. Many Spanish intellectuals were under the influence of the German philosopher Karl Krauss Kraussism taught that the education of professional elites would result in the nfluencing of society.

A scholarship at the Colegio de San Clemente de Bologna Italy gave him the opportunity to pursue his studies in history, art, pedagogy and philosophy, to obtain the certificate of the school of pedagogy and anthropology of the University of Bologna, as well as to travel extensively in Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland and Belgium.

In he started his university career, dividing his time between teaching at the School of Arts in Barcelona where he became a professor in , and his appointment as director of the National Museum of Pedagogy founded in He attended the Congress of Education in London in with Giner, and then visited Eton and Oxford; two years later he toured, commissioned by the Spanish government, the most important educational institutions in France, Belgium, Holland and Great Britain.

In he was entrusted with the department of General Pedagogy of the museum. An appointment as professor at the School of Criminology happened in and in another in the department of Pedagogy of Doctoral Studies of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the Central University. An English summary appeared the following year by the Hispanic Society of America.

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His friend, Giner died the same year After medical treatment in Switzerland, he returned to Spain as the republic was proclaimed. Continued ill health, however, prevented him from getting involved in the political life, although he was elected deputy in , and was proposed by Lerroux to become the president of the republic.

He had been among the first Spanish intellectuals to be awarded the distinction Citizen of Honor of the Republic. El pensamiento vivo de Manuel B.