10 Facts About Antonio Tovar

Antonio Tovar Llorente was a Spanish philologist, linguist and historian.

Antonio Tovar studied law at the Universidad Maria Cristina de El Escorial, History at the University of Valladolid, and Classical Philology in Madrid, Paris and Berlin.

Antonio Tovar had as teachers, among others, Cayetano de Mergelina, Manuel Gomez-Moreno, Ramon Menendez Pidal and Eduard Schwyzer.

Antonio Tovar was president of the University Student Federation in Valladolid, a republican-leaning organisation, but in September 1936 after beginning the civil war, he adopted a Falangist attitude influenced by his intimate friend Dionisio Ridruejo, and became one of those responsible for the propaganda of the nationalist government in Burgos, though his disillusionment with the Nationalist faction started.

Antonio Tovar worked with the Falangist newspaper Arriba Espana in Pamplona, edited by Fermin Yzurdiaga.

Antonio Tovar accompanied Serrano Suner on several trips to Germany and Italy and during some of these he was present in some meetings with Mussolini and with Hitler.

Antonio Tovar was a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of Tucuman, where he studied the indigenous languages of northern Argentina and tried to create a school that would continue his work in this field.

Antonio Tovar devoted his studies to classical philology and to a large number of languages, including Basque, proto-Indo-European languages, other indigenous languages of the peninsula such as Iberian, and Amerindian languages.

Antonio Tovar was editor of the magazine Emerita, Minos and Acta Salamantisencia.

Antonio Tovar wrote literary criticism in the magazine Gaceta Ilustrada.