Cristóbal Pérez Pastor
Cristóbal Pérez Pastor (6 November 1833 – 21 August 1906) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, archivist, bibliographer and literary historian.[1]
Contents
Biography
Cristóbal Pérez Pastor was born at Tobarra in the Province of Albacete. He entered the Seminary of St. Fulgentius in Murcia at a very young age and was ordained a priest. His first parishes were Orihuela and Tobarra; in the latter he was Rector of "San Roque". His thirst for knowledge made him move to Madrid to study science. He became a Doctor in Physics and Chemistry.
Father Pérez was approved to the Chair of Agriculture in San Juan, but resigned without exercising it because of his religious commitments (he was appointed Chaplain of Atocha and then of the Royal Discalced). He studied at the Diplomatic School of Madrid, and after finishing in 1874 he was assistant professor of the subject practical exercises and cataloging of museums; however, dissenting from the pedagogical methods of the same, he decided to abandon it. In 1881 he joined the Corps of Archivists and Librarians and was assigned to the Provincial Library of Toledo (1882) and later to the National Library, the Royal Academy of History and the National Historical Archive. In 1905, Father Pérez was elected to the Royal Spanish Academy, but never took up his post.
He went through archives and libraries all over the country, especially the Archivo Histórico de Protocolos de Madrid in search of documents on Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderón de la Barca, also in search of letters of obligation to print, of sale of privileges, of purchase of paper, of wills of the golden authors or of any document related not only to their production but also to their lives; documents that he then used for his bibliographic records.
A man of very broad culture, he was also an important Cervantist and had a tertulia at the Galloso Pharmacy with personalities such as Benito Pérez Galdós, Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo and Pío Baroja, among others. In 1905 he organized the Cervantes Exhibition for the centenary, which was exhibited at the National Library, which earned him the attacks of Francisco Rodríguez Marín. That same year, as mentioned above, he was made an academician of the Spanish Language to fill the vacancy left by the conservative politician Francisco Silvela, but he was already ill and spent long periods of time in Horche, in the Province of Guadalajara.
He was one of the most illustrious Spanish bibliophiles along with Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, Manuel Milà i Fontanals, Francisco Rodríguez Marín and Ramón Menéndez Pidal and won numerous bibliography prizes from the National Library. He collaborated in the main journals of literary erudition throughout Europe, and especially in the Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos.
Works
- La imprenta en Toledo [Printing in Toledo], 1887
- Bibliografía madrileña del siglo XVI [Madrid bibliography of the 16th century], 3 vols, 1891, 1906, 1907
- La imprenta en Medina del Campo [Printing in Medina del Campo], 1895
- Proceso de Lope de Vega [Trial of Lope de Vega], 1901
- Nuevos datos acerca del histrionismo español en los siglos XVI y XVII [New facts relating to Spanish acting in the 16th and 17th centuries], 1901
- Documentos cervantinos, 2 vols, 1897-1902
- Documentos para la biografia de Calderon, 1905
- Noticias y documentos... recogidos por... Pérez Pastor, 4 vols, 1910-1926
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cristóbal Pérez Pastor. |
