Biography of Miguel de Unamuno

In this new video from Unprofesor we will explain the biography of Miguel de Unamuno.

Miguel de Unamuno was a great Spanish writer, thinker and poet. As you well know, he is part of the generation of 98 together with Pio Baroja, Azorin and many others. This generation was very important since it was the precursor (perhaps a little) of the disenchantment and vital boredom that would end up leading to the philosophical theories of Heidegger and Sartre. Miguel de Unamuno was born in Bilbao in 1864 and died in Salamanca in 1936. He spent his childhood in the Basque Country and in 1883 he graduated in philosophy and letters. He spent a few years as a teacher and in 1891 he took the chair at the University of Salamanca.

Miguel de Unamuno won a place to be professor at the university but it was not until 1900 when he was elected rector of the University of Salamanca. Broadly speaking, this would be Miguel de Unamuno's academic life journey. Then we will enter to understand a little the facet of him as a novelist, philosopher and as a poet. But it is very important in his life; know what contradictions and what struggles he maintained. For example, throughout his life he fiercely attacked the monarchy and the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. What earned him convictions, arrests until he finally had to go into exile (in approximately 1923/1924). Until 1930, with the second republic, which

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