Carmen Iglesias happens to Gonzalo Anes – The New Spain

The historian Carmen Iglesias Cano was elected new director of the Real Academia de la Historia, a position which happens to Faustino Menéndez Pidal of Navascués , who took over interim direction after the death of Asturias Gonzalo Anes . Carmen Iglesias (Madrid, 1946), first woman elected to lead the Real Academia de la Historia since its founding in 1736 until now has been part of several academic committees and was attached to the governing board.

According to the statutes of the Real Academia de la Historia, when registering the death of Anes less than a year for the scheduled election date, it was this December, as chairman of what was to take interim, the then deputy, Aragonese Menéndez Pidal. Academic Any number may be elected director if in a secret ballot, obtains an absolute majority. In this case, Carmen Iglesias, who will head the Royal Academy during the next four years, has obtained the majority support of his colleagues on the first ballot. Specifically, it has achieved a vote of 23 of the 29 academics number present for the vote.

After knowing the result, Iglesias Cano was “very excited” by the almost unanimous support of his colleagues and said he feels “great weight of responsibility” for being the first woman to head the institution. The statutes of the Academy also established in Article 22, that the acceptance fee is required except in cases of disability. Academic positions are incompatible and can not play more than one simultaneously.

“The Library of the Academy is one of the best in Spain and is digitized greatly, and in the institution also has a collection of important portraits. All that must be put in value,” said Iglesias in an interview. As we must add value to the “Spanish Biographical Dictionary,” the “most accessed from the National Library” and whose work is currently working digital edition Academy of History. Leading this academy will is “a lot of responsibility and a great honor,” said the preceptor of Philip VI, which, among other things, specializes in the seventeenth century.