Luis Suárez Fernández

Who is Luis Suárez Fernández?

Luis Suárez Fernández is a Spanish historian, originally a medievalist, who has extended his studies to include modern and recent history. He belongs to a line of Spanish historians that are in full agreement with Francoism.

Suárez studied philosophy and literature at the universities of Oviedo and Valladolid, receiving his doctorate in history on 16 June 1947 from the University of Madrid. In 1955 he obtained a professorship of Pre- and Universal History of Antiquity and the Middle Ages and General Cultural History at Valladolid, where he rose to the posts of dean and rector. As recto he founded the first chair in theatre at the university. In 1972 the government made him Director General of Universities and Investigation.

In 1975 Suárez took up the chair of medieval history at the recently inaugurated Autonomous University of Madrid. That same year he became director of the Escuela Española en Roma de Arqueología e Historia of CSIC, a Spanish cultural society in Rome. He had been chief of the medieval studies section since 1956; he was overall director until 1978.