Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez
Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez, was a Spanish archaeologist and historian.Biography
Martinez was born 21 February 1870 in Granada, Spain. He is the son of noted painter and amateur archaeologist, Manuel Gómez-Moreno González and Dolores Martínez Almirón.
He authored many books, nearly 300, mostly focused on Hispanic archeology and art history. During the first years of the twentieth century he wrote Catálogo Monumental y artístico de España .
Gómez-Moreno was named Doctor honoris causa by the University of Oxford in 1941, Glasgow in 1951 and Granada in 1970. One of his students was Hispanic art historian, José María de Azcárate.
