Fernando Jiménez de Gregorio

Fernando Jiménez de Gregorio (30 May 1911 – 23 July 2012) was a Spanish historian. He served as official cronista of the Province of Toledo.[1]

Biography

Fernando Jiménez de Gregorio was born in Belvís de la Jara, province of Toledo, on 30 May 1911.[2][3] In 1927, he finished his secondary studies of Enseñanza Libre at the Instituto San Isidro in Madrid.[4] He studied both Law and Philosophy and Letters at the Central University, earning a PhD in the latter specialty in 1933,[4] by reading a dissertation titled La convocatoria de Cortes Constituyentes en 1810. Aportaciones documentales inéditas acerca del estado de la opinión española en punto a la reforma constitucional, directed by Pío Zabala.[5] He participated in the so-called Crucero universitario por el Mediterráneo.[6]

Before the Civil War, he worked as teacher in Plasencia (serving as director of the Instituto Placentino Elemental de Segunda Enseñanza "Gabriel y Galán").[7] He later worked as secondary teacher at the Instituto "Saavedra Fajardo" in Murcia in the 1940s, and was soon being appointed as lecturer at the University of Murcia.[8] He returned to Toledo in the 1960s.[9] He also worked in Madrid,[10][1] where he was appointed as director of the Instituto Isabel la Católica in the 1976/1977 academic year.[11]

He died, age 101, on 23 July 2012,[12] in Madrid.[1]

He authored more than 50 monographies, including Mi posguerra, Memorias de un miliciano de la cultura en Aranjuez and La Sagra toledana.[12] He also devoted many works to his native comarca of La Jara.[1]

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