Carmen Iglesias

María del Carmen Iglesias Cano is a Spanish historian. She holds the non-hereditary title Countess of Gisbert, which was bestowed on her by King Juan Carlos.[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Iglesias and the second or maternal family name is Cano.
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Carmen Iglesias

Countess of Gisbert
Born
María del Carmen Iglesias Cano

(1942-03-16) 16 March 1942
Madrid, Spain

As Director of the Real Academia de la Historia, she has been responsible for the launch of the electronic version of Spain´s dictionary of national biography, the Diccionario biográfico español.[2]

Education

Iglesias studied at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Career

Iglesias is a specialist in eighteenth-century history, and her publications include work on the French philosopher Montesquieu.

Iglesias was elected to medalla nº 23 of the Real Academia de la Historia on 16 June 1989 and took up her seat on 4 November 1991.[3] She has been director of the Institute since 2014.[4] She was elected to Seat E of the Real Academia Española on 13 April 2000, she took up her seat on 30 September 2002.[5]

Bibliography

El pensamiento de Montesquieu: política y ciencia natural. 1984, republished 2005. (link to lecture on Montesquieu)

References
  1. In a decree dated May 2014 the King stated:
    «La brillante e intensa labor académica y docente de doña María del Carmen Iglesias Cano, al servicio de España y de la Corona, merece ser reconocida de manera especial, por lo que, queriendo demostrarle mi Real aprecio,
    Vengo en otorgarle, con carácter vitalicio, el título de Condesa de Gisbert
    Juan Carlos R.»
    — Real Decreto 354/2014, de 13 de mayo. Publicado en el «BOE» núm. 117, de 14 de mayo de 2014, páginas 37786.
  2. "La historia se conecta a la era tecnológica con el Diccionario Biográfico Electrónico". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2018.
  3. "Mª del Carmen Iglesias Cano, Condesa de Gisbert" (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019.
  4. "Carmen Iglesias se convierte en la primera mujer directora de la Real Academia de la Historia". 20minutos (in Spanish). 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  5. "Carmen Iglesias" (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019.


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