Ramiro de Maeztu
Ramiro de Maeztu | |
|---|---|
Maeztu in 1934 | |
| Ambassador of Spain to Argentina | |
| In office February 1928 – February 1930 | |
| Member of the Cortes | |
| In office 1933–1936 | |
| Seat L of the Real Academia Española | |
| In office 30 June 1935 – 29 October 1936 | |
| Preceded by | Cipriano Muñoz |
| Succeeded by | Eugenio Montes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney 4 May 1875 |
| Died | 29 October 1936 (aged 61) |
| Party | Patriotic Union National Monarchist Union Spanish Renovation |
Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, 1st Count of Maeztu (4 May 1875 – 29 October 1936) was a Spanish essayist, journalist and publicist.
Maeztu's early literary work ascribes him to the Generation of '98. Adept of Nietzschean and Social Darwinist ideas in his youth, he became close to Fabian socialism and later to distributism and social corporatism during his spell as correspondent in London from where he chronicled the Great War. During the years of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship he served as Ambassador to Argentina. A staunch militarist, he became at the end of his ideological path one of the most prominent far-right theorists against the Spanish Republic, leading the reactionary voices calling for a military coup. A member of the cultural group Acción Española, he spread the concept of "Hispanidad" (Spanishness). Imprisoned by Republican authorities after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he was killed by leftist militiamen during a saca in the midst of the conflict.