Antonio
Fraguas Fraguas was born in Insuela, Galicia, on December 28, 1905, and died in
Santiago de Compostela on November 5, 1999.
He was an
important Galician historian, ethnographer, anthropologist, and geographer. In
1923 he and some of his fellows founded the Sociedade da Lingua, whose main
goals were the defense of the Galician language and the creation of a
dictionary. He was a member of Irmandades da Fala and Seminario de Estudos Galegos
and was high school professor after the Spanish Civil War broke out.
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