Alejandro Pidal y Mon ( Alejandro Pidal y Mon ; August 26, 1846 , Madrid , Spain — October 19, 1913 , ibid.) - Spanish statesman, chairman of the Congress of Deputies of Spain (1893–1893, 1896— 1898, 1899-1900).
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Predecessor | Antonio Aguilar i Correa | ||||||
Successor | Raimundo Fernandez Villaverde | ||||||
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Predecessor | Antonio Aguilar i Correa | ||||||
Successor | Antonio Aguilar i Correa | ||||||
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Predecessor | Manuel Alonso Martinez | ||||||
Successor | Antonio Aguilar i Correa | ||||||
Birth | August 26, 1846 Madrid , Spain | ||||||
Death | October 19, 1913 (67 years) Madrid , Spain | ||||||
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The consignment | Conservative party | ||||||
Education | Central University of Madrid | ||||||
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Biography
Born in the Asturian family of Pedro José Pidal and the sister of the former head of the Spanish government, Manuella Mon.
He graduated from the Institute of San Isidro and the Faculty of Law of the Central University of Madrid . He joined the group of neo-Catholics and, together with a number of like-minded people, founded the weekly magazine La Cruzada in 1867.
In August 1872, he was first elected to the Congress of Deputies. Actively engaged in legislative activities on the Catholic Church and on the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico. He was not elected to the Constituent Assembly of the First Republic , but in 1876 he again became a deputy after the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty. From that moment until the end of his life, he was re-elected a total of over fifteen elections, adhering to conservative Catholic views.
In 1874 he founded the publication La España Católica, renamed La España a year later. In it, he criticizes the government of Antonio Canovas del Castillo , whom he accused of trying to put the monarchy in the service of the revolution, as well as for censorship against the Catholic press. As a result, he comes to the conclusion about the impossibility and completes the reconciliation of the revolution with the restoration of the monarchy. In the course of the constitutional debates, he was of the opinion that it was necessary to return to the pre-revolutionary Basic Law of 1845, the proposed new text did not suit him primarily for the proposed table of human rights, he also strongly opposed religious freedom and the approval of its principles regarding family and political life .
In 1881, he was one of the founders of the "Catholic Union", which sought to unite all the Catholics of Spain. At the end of the year in Rome he meets with Pope Leo XIII and then with King Alfonso XII , who were interested in bringing Spanish Catholics to their politics.
In 1883, Mr .. was elected a full member of the Spanish Royal Academy.
In 1884-1885 was appointed minister of development. He paid special attention to education, signed a decision against the reform aspirations of university representatives, and also initiated the expansion of public works and the construction of a railway link through the port of Pajares.
- 1893–1893, 1896–1898 and 1899–1900 - Chairman of the Congress of Deputies.
- 1900-1902 - Ambassador of Spain in the Vatican. He resigned in the context of the fact that the Sagast government supported the project of modification of the concordat .
- 1897 - after the assassination of Antonio Canovas was considered as a possible leader of the Conservative Party (in 1898 he headed the party’s branch in Madrid).
In 1906, despite attacks by a number of media outlets, he was appointed director of the Royal Academy . He is the author of two large monographs on Thomas Aquinas and the Jesuit Triumph in France (1880). He was a member of the Royal Academy of Law and Law and the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
Awards and titles
He was awarded the Knightly Order of the Golden Fleece and was commander of the papal order of St. Gregory the Great .