Fernando Jiménez de Gregorio

Fernando Jiménez de Gregorio (30 May 1911 – 23 July 2012) was a Spanish historian. He served as official cronista of the Province of Toledo.^[1]

Biography

Fernando Jiménez de Gregorio was born in Belvís de la Jara, province of Toledo, on 30 May 1911.^[2][3] In 1927, he finished his secondary studies of Enseñanza Libre at the Instituto San Isidro in Madrid.^[4] He studied both Law and Philosophy and Letters at the Central University, earning a PhD in the latter specialty in 1933,^[4] by reading a dissertation titled La convocatoria de Cortes Constituyentes en 1810. Aportaciones documentales inéditas acerca del estado de la opinión española en punto a la reforma constitucional, directed by Pío Zabala [es].^[5] He participated in the so-called Crucero universitario por el Mediterráneo [es].^[6]

Before the Civil War, he worked as teacher in Plasencia (serving as director of the Instituto Placentino Elemental de Segunda Enseñanza "Gabriel y Galán").^[7] He later worked as secondary teacher at the Instituto "Saavedra Fajardo" in Murcia in the 1940s, and was soon being appointed as lecturer at the University of Murcia.^[8] He returned to Toledo in the 1960s.^[9] He also worked in Madrid,^[10][1] where he was appointed as director of the Instituto Isabel la Católica [es] in the 1976/1977 academic year.^[11] He died, age 101, on 23 July 2012,^[12] in Madrid.^[1]

He authored more than 50 monographies, including Mi posguerra, Memorias de un miliciano de la cultura en Aranjuez and La Sagra toledana.^[12] He also devoted many works to his native comarca of La Jara.^[1]

Recognitions

• Hijo Adoptivo ('adoptive son') of Talavera de la Reina^[1]
• Numerary member of the Real Academia Alfonso X el Sabio (joined in 1957)^[8]
• Numerary member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes y Ciencias Históricas de Toledo [es]^[7]
• Numerary member of the Instituto de Estudios Madrileños [es]^[7]
• Commander with Plaque of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise^[7]