1832
José Echegaray, Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
José Echegaray, Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
José Echegaray
Spanish statesman
- Born
- 1832
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama".