Pancracio Celdrán


Pancracio Celdrán Gomáriz was a Spanish professor, intellectual and journalist whose specialties were the history and literature of antiquity and the medieval period.

Life

Born in Murcia, Celdrán received a degree in Hispanic literature and a doctorate in philosophy and letters from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; a master's degree in comparative history; and has also received degrees in middle eastern history, English literature, comparative literature, and Hebrew language and culture.
Celdrán's academic activities took him to various universities in the United States, in Europe, and in Israel. He was also a guest professor at the International Lebanese University in Beirut.
Though Celdrán worked occasionally in print and on television, his journalistic activities were chiefly in the medium of radio, where he has worked as a writer, executive producer, and special correspondent. He has also participated in radio tertulias. He was a contributor to No es un día cualquiera, a weekend news magazine broadcast by Radio Nacional de España, and the resident linguistic consultant of El Semanal, the Sunday supplement published by the Grupo Vocento. However the prestige that this tribunes could provide him, Celdrán was critically reviewed as denigratory to non-standard speakers and other political, religious and sexual positions different from his.
In addition to many books, Celdrán contributed material to Raíces, a cultural review of the Jewish community in Spain.
Celdrán died on 24 March 2019 in Madrid, at the age of 77.