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Américo Castro

1885 - 1972

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Américo Castro Quesada (May 4, 1885 – July 25, 1972) was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising controversy with his conclusions that Spaniards did not become the distinct group that they are today until after the Islamic conquest of Hispania of 711, an event that turned them into an Iberian caste co-existing among Moors and Jews, and that the history of Spain and Portugal was adversely affected with the success in the 11th to the 15th centuries of the "Reconquista" or Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula and with the Spanish expulsion of the Jews (1492). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Américo Castro is the 451st most popular historian (down from 433rd in 2019), the 629th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 582nd in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Américo Castro ranks 451 out of 561. Before her are Donald Nicol, Avi Shlaim, Drew Gilpin Faust, Martin Gilbert, John King Fairbank, and Martin Noth. After her are Girolamo Mei, Hermann Oldenberg, Alain Besançon, Helene Ahrweiler, Lawrence Stone, and David Marshall Lang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Américo Castro ranks 216. Before her are Anita Rée, María Grever, Malcolm Campbell, Roland Dorgelès, Tommaso Costantino, and Percy Hobart. After her are Charles Henry Bartlett, José Durand Laguna, Jaafar Al-Askari, Leonard Peterson, Carl Silfverstrand, and Leonida Tonelli. Among people deceased in 1972, Américo Castro ranks 205. Before her are Sven Markelius, Mitchell Leisen, Xie Fuzhi, Julian Steward, Yuri Linnik, and Tevfik Rüştü Aras. After her are Gia Scala, Charu Majumdar, Ntare V of Burundi, Geraldine Beamish, Pandurang Vaman Kane, and Mikhail Artamonov.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Américo Castro ranks 629 out of 2,236. Before her are Zé Luiz (1904), Índio (1931), Roberto Mangabeira Unger (1947), Giba (1976), Carlos Latuff (1968), and José dos Santos Lopes (1910). After her are Naldo (1982), Elano (1981), Giovanni Silva de Oliveira (1972), Fernando Haddad (1963), Carlos Alberto Dias (1967), and Adãozinho (1923).

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Among HISTORIANS In Brazil

Among historians born in Brazil, Américo Castro ranks 1. 

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