He Valladolid City Council receptions He will host, this Monday, May 5, at 11:30 am the presentation of the latest book of the historian and professor of the University of Valladolid, JAVIER BURLENE SÁNCHEZ: ‘Portrait of Ortega and Rubio. Trajectory of a historian for knowledge ‘. Edited by the City Council Publications Service within the Collection “Valladolid portraits gallery”the work, of 525 pages, enters the life and legacy of Juan Ortega and Rubio, considered the first Great Professor of History at the University of Valladolid and essential figure in the construction of historical knowledge about the city.
Burcieza began to Gesting this volume in 2020in full exit of the pandemic, as a way of recovering the illusion for investigating forgotten figures of local historiography. Initially it arose as a tribute to the teacher Rosa María González Martínezbut soon he acquired his own impulse thanks to the collaboration of several descendants of Ortega and Rubio, including Pedro Ortega, Rosa María Menchón Lara and Víctor Manuel Ortega Smith, who has acted as a custodian of his family legacy.
The book reviews the vital and intellectual trajectory of Ortega and Rubio, Murcia of origin but Valladolid of adoptionwhose footprint in the city lasts through its research work and its editions of fundamental texts. It was he who rescued from oblivion, for example, ‘History of Valladolid’ by Juan Antolínez de Burgoswritten in the time of Felipe III but unpublished until 1887, thanks to its initiative and the printing press of Rodríguez’s children, editors of The mercantile chronicle.
Ortega and Rubio developed a brilliant academic career that began with a chair in secondary education institutes during the Revolutionary six -year period and culminated with its transfer, in 1895, to the Central University of Madrid. Throughout his life, he was not only interested in the history of Valladolid, but left a prolific production that included the ‘Compendium of Universal History’ (1879) or the ‘History of the regency of Queen María Cristina’. He was a republican and progressive intellectual, close to the thought of Emilio Castelarand like many of his generation, he lived in tension with the ecclesiastical hierarchy, although without abandoning his spiritual dimension.
Their contributions to local and national historiography extended from the Studies on peoples of the province and biographies of illustrious characters until the edition of key documents for future investigations. His students include names as relevant as Claudio Sánchez Albornoz, Ramón Carande or Pedro Sainz Rodríguez, and among whom they fleeted fleetingly through their classrooms, figures such as Menéndez Pelayo or Clarín.
Juan Ortega and Rubio died on March 28, 1921 at his home on Fuencarral Street, in Madrid, after a life dedicated to thought, teaching and the recovery of historical memory. His last lesson, dictated on the same day of his death, symbolizes a Deliver without rest to knowledge.
With this book, Javier Burrie rigorous and human portrait of the historian, It claims its role in the configuration of a Valladolid and national intellectual identity, in a time of profound changes.
The presentation of the book is with free admission. An opportunity to rediscover one of the great forgotten of the Spanish historical thought.
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