Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno
Unamuno in 1925
Born	Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo 29 September 1864 (1864-09-29) Bilbao, Spain
Died	31 December 1936 (1937-01-01) (aged 72) Salamanca, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Alma mater	Complutense University of Madrid
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Spanish philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Positivism Existentialism
Main interests	Philosophy of religion, political philosophy
Notable ideas	Agony of Christianity
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.

His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life (1912),^[3] and his most famous novel were Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917),^[4] a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story, and Mist (1914), which Literary Encyclopedia calls "the most acclaimed Spanish Modernist novel".^[5]