Miguel As\u00edn Palacios (1871-1944) founding vice-president of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas and famous Spanish Arabist as well as Islamologist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He perfectly combined his scientific, teaching and management activities with his Catholic beliefs and his priestly ministry, becoming part of the CSIC's founding management team as 2nd Vice-President. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born in Zaragoza on July 5, 1871, he studied high school at the Colegio del Salvador, of the Society of Jesus. A disciple of the prestigious Arabist Juli\u00e1n Ribera, founding member of the Junta para Ampliaci\u00f3n de Estudios e Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas, he moved to Madrid to obtain his doctorate in 1896. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His doctoral thesis, which marked the subsequent direction of his studies, was published with a prologue by Men\u00e9ndez y Pelayo, another founding member of the JAE whom he met around that time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A professor at the Seminary, he obtained the chair of Arabic at the Central University on April 24, 1903, where he succeeded the also famous Catholic Arabist Francisco Codera Zaid\u00edn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was granted a scholarship by the JAE to study abroad and became a member of the JAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His scientific activity included his facet as philologist, linguist and lexicographer. His written work includes about 250 titles among books, translations, editions and articles, as well as the numerous reviews he published for the most serious and academic journals and his activity as an Arabist and Islamologist was not at odds with an objectivity with an objectivity that is not easy to find nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On March 29, 1914, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. As a promoter of scientific institutions, he participated in the foundation of the Centro de Estudios Hist\u00f3ricos de la JAE (1910), was a member of the Junta Constructora de la Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid and founding vice-president of the CSIC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was also a Member of numerous foreign scientific societies such as the Hispanic Society<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Miguel As\u00edn Palacios (1871-1944) vicepresidente fundacional del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y famoso arabista espa\u00f1ol adem\u00e1s de islam\u00f3logo. Compagin\u00f3 perfectamente su actividad cient\u00edfica, docente y de gesti\u00f3n con sus creencias cat\u00f3licas y su ministerio sacerdotal, llegando a formar parte del equipo directivo fundador del CSIC como Vicepresidente 2\u00ba. Nacido en Zaragoza el 5 de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":38834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36,39],"tags":[1333],"class_list":["post-38816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-cultura","tag-cientificos-catolicos"],"yoast_head":"\n