Ramón Otero Pedrayo [SEP] place of death
Ramón Otero Pedrayo
Ramón Otero Pedrayo (alternative spelling "Outeiro Pedraio") (Ourense, Galicia, 1888 - Ourense, 1976) was a Galician geographer, writer and intellectual. He was a key member of the Galician cultural and political movement "Xeración Nós".
Biography.
Otero Pedrayo taught Geography and History in Burgos and Santander (Spain), before he went back to his natal city of Ourense. In 1918 he becomes a member of the Galicianist organisation "Irmandades da Fala". He was a
tenure member of the Real Academia Gallega (English: Royal Galician Academy), where he was admitted on 8 May, taking over Castelao's place. He was introduced by Salustiano Portela Pazos, Ramón Otero Pedrayo and Luís Iglesias Iglesias, and his entrance speech "“Roseiras e paxariños nas cantigas dun serán (Coplas que se cantaban nas ruadas de Loureiro de Cotobade)"”, was answered by Otero Pedrayo. In 1997 he became the President of the Institution.
In 1955 he worked at the Sociedade Económica de Amigos