Alberto Rodríguez de Lista y Aragón (October 15, 1775 - October 5, 1848), Spanish

Spain

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 poet

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 and educationalist, was born at Seville

Seville

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He began teaching at the age of fifteen, and when little over twenty was made professor of elocution and poetry at the University of Seville

University of Seville

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. In 1813 he was exile

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d, on political grounds, but pardoned in 1817. He then returned to Spain and, after teaching for three years at Bilbao

Bilbao

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, started a critical review at Madrid

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. Shortly afterwards he founded the celebrated college of San Mateo in that city. The liberal character of the San Mateo educational system was not favored by the government, and in 1823 the college was closed.

Lista after some time spent in Bayonne

Bayonne

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, Paris

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 and London

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 was recalled to Spain in 1833 to edit the official Madrid Gazette. He was one of the founders of the Ateneo, the free university of Madrid, and up till 1840 was director of a college at Cadiz

Cádiz

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. All the leading spirits of the young generation of Spaniards, statesmen, writers, soldiers and diplomatists came under his influence. He died at Seville on the 5th of October 1848.