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Manuel Azaña Díaz was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic, organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (1936–1939). He was the most prominent leader of the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939.
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The Spanish statesman and author Manuel Azaña Diaz (1880-1940) was prime minister of the republic from 1931 to 1933 and briefly in 1936. He became president in 1936, a position he held until the republic fell in March 1939 to the Nationalists.
Azaña, Manuel. views 2,142,081 updated. Manuel Azaña (mänwĕl´ äthä´nyä), 1880–1940, Spanish statesman. An author and critic, he gained prominence as president (1930) of the Madrid Ateneo, a literary and political club, and came to the fore as a revolutionary political leader in 1931.
PDF. Share. Tools. Azaña, the literary man, the scholar and essayist, the political philosopher, parliamentarian, minister of war and prime minister, the prisoner, the president of the Spanish Republic in its most tragic years—above all, Azaña the man, against a background of hope, of profound changes in the making, of disunity, dissension ...
Azaña Díaz, Manuel. Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), 10.I.1880 – Montauban (Francia), 3.XI.1940. Escritor y político. Ministro de la Guerra y Presidente del Consejo de Ministros de 1931 a 1933, y Presidente de la República española de 1936 a 1939. Segundo de cuatro hermanos en una familia de clase acomodada.
Before he became President of the Spanish Republic Manuel Azaña had twice been its Prime Minister, and when he assumed the office of President in May of 1936 he was Spain’s best-known politician, because of his success
PDF. Share. Tools. The most important chapters of Mr. Sedwick’s book are the first, dealing with Azaña’s family background and his early literary-political activities, and the last, dealing with the months of exile in France and with his death in Montauban in November, 1940.
