Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz y Aboín
(Madrid, 1926)
Professor Emeritus at the University of New York.
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Claudio Sanchez-Albornoz´s son (historian and Prime Minister of the Spanish Republican Government in exile). Professor Emeritus at New York University. Previously, teacher at that university since 1968 and Professor of History since 1972. His life has been marked by three exiles: the first was caused by the Spanish Civil War during his childhood. The second, during his youth in Argentina after escaping from a concentration camp as a result of a student protest together with a clandestine attempt to reconstruct the FUE in 1947. And the third, when he was a professor in Argentina, and had to move to the States.
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In 1955, He began his teaching career at the University Nacional del Litoral in Argentina. He also ran the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas (Institute for Historical Research) from 1962 to 1966, becoming Professor at the Universities del Sur, La Plata, and Buenos Aires. In 1966 he resigned from his position in protest against the General Onganía´s dictatorship. In 1968 he joined the Department of History at the New York University where he also became Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History (1987-88), and Director of the Center for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (1986). He also directed the Ibero American Language and Area Center, and achieved the William Kenan Jr. Professorship. In the States, he has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Texas, Columbia and Yale; and Jordan Davidson Professor at the Florida International University. As a researcher, he has received support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council of the United States, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Banco de España, and the BBV Foundation.
All the directors of the Instituto Cervantes on the armored door of Caja de las Letras. Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz (center).
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Selected awards: Appointed by the Spanish government as the first Director of Instituto Cervantes (1991-1996). He has been given the Encomienda de la Orden del Mérito Civil. Member of the Real Academia de la Historia (Royal academy of History), of Academia Portuguesa de la Historia (Portuguese Academy of History), Patronato de la Fundación Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz (Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz Foundation), Consejo de Gobierno del Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive (Boston), and Consejo Directivo del Spanish Institute (Directive Council of the Spanish Institute). Honorary PhD from the Universidad Autónoma, Barcelona (2006). |
He has also produced numerous editorials in various journals and collections of history books. Along with other anti-Franco activists, he founded the editorial Ruedo Iberico, a political tool in the intellectual struggle against the Franco´s regime. As a historian, his research has introduced an innovative conception of history, highlighting two main directions: the contemporary economic history of Spain and the historical demography of Latin America.
Selected publications: España hace un siglo: una economía dual (Eds. Península, 1968); La Población de América Latina: desde los tiempos precolombinos al año 2000 (Alianza, 1973, 1985, 1994); Los precios agrícolas durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX (Madrid, Servicio de Estudios del Banco de España, 1975); Indios y tributos en el Alto Perú (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1978); Madrid ante la Castilla agraria en el siglo XIX (Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 1983); Población y mano de obra en América Latina (Alianza, 1985); La modernización económica de España, 1830-1930 (Alianza, 1985); El destierro español en América: Un trasvase cultural (Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, 1991). Españoles hacia América: La emigración en masa, 1830-1930 (Alianza, 1995).
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He was the screenwriter for the film “Los años bárbaros”, directed by Fernando Colomo in 1998. Synopsis: Based on actual events; two college students (Nicolas Sanchez-Albornoz & Manuel Lamana) are sentenced to hard labor in the Valle de los Caídos in 1947 because of a picture against Franco. Unable to resign themselves to being there for several years, they plan a crazy escape in a softtop car with two young American women posing as tourists (Barbara Probst-Solomon & Barbara-Mailer).
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