Antonio Solalinde

Who was Antonio Solalinde?

Antonio García de Solalinde was a writer, professor and philologist born in the town of Toro in Spain.

He was director of the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma and an important collaborator in the Revista de Filología Española. Solalinde eventually relocated to the United States where he was employed as a professor at a number of diverse universities.

He published a number of scholarly works, including Milagros de Nuestra Señora, a treatise on Gonzalo de Berceo, and diverse articles relating to the work of king Alfonso X of Castile and his relationship to the Siete Partidas, Spain's seven part legal code that was followed for centuries both there and in Latin America, such as El códice florentino de las 'Cantigas' y su relación con los demás manuscritos and Intervención personal de Alfonso X en la redacción de sus obras.

Solalinde died in 1937 while residing in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.