Jose Ortega Munilla

Jose Ortega Munilla , born with Cárdenas (Cuba) the October 26th 1856, and dead the December 30th 1922, is a writer and Spanish journalist, father of the philosopher Jose Ortega there Gasset.

Biography

Jose Ortega Munilla is the son of Jose Ortega Zapata, originating in Valladolid, and María del Pilar Munilla Urquiza, born in Estrémadure. His/her father is member of the moderated party, and exerts important functions in the cuban colonial administration; he however devotes most of his time to journalism. The family moves in Madrid during the childhood of Jose - this last will be always considered inhabitant of Madrid. It begins its studies with the small seminar, Cuenca, then in Gérone, and leaves this establishment when the revolution of 1868 bursts, to begin studies of right.

It shares the opinions progressists which are then that of the majority of youth resulting from the easy mediums. He is writer with Iberia , body of the party of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. With his/her friend Miguel Moya, Ortega Munilla founds the literary review Linterna and also publishes a review devoted to the bullfighting, El Chiclanero . Its realistic work makes it possible to attach it to the realistic generation of 1868; convictions positivists, it is close to the Krausisme on the philosophical level, and to the naturalism in literature. It writes then a weekly chronicle in Los the Moons del Impar cial.

June 9th, 1881, he marries one of the girls of Eduardo Gasset, the founder of El Imparcial , Dolores Gasset there Chinchilla. From their marriage are born four children: Eduardo, which died in exile in Caracas, in February 1965, Rafaela, deceased in 1949, Manuel, author of the Biographie of El Imparcial , dead in September 1965, and finally the philosopher Jose Ortega there Gasset, deceased in 1955.

Jose Ortega Munilla is elected member of Real Academia Española in 1902; its speech of reception relates to Ramón de Campoamor. He works at the literary column of the the Moons del Imparcial , then with the daily newspaper El Imparciaol the , most prestigious of his time, of which he ends up taking the direction. He is one of the directors of the important press group built around El Imparcial , and supports the daily newspaper El Sol , on which his/her Jose son exerts a notable influence. He makes his press agencies of the springboards for the writers of the generation of 1898, inter alia Azorín, Pío Baroja and Valle-Inclán, whose notoriety then started to be done day.

Works

Cleopatra Pérez , 1884
Idilio lúgubre , 1887
El espejuelo of the gloria , 1897
Estracilla , 1918

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