Manuel Olmedo Checa
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Description
Manuel Olmedo Checa is a Spanish historian and industrial technical engineer. He has participated in studies and singular projects such as Integral Sanitation, Guadalmedina River, Periurban Parks, Alcazaba Tunnel or Gibralfaro Funicular in Málaga (Spain) He has studied Cánovas del Castillo, Rodríguez de Berlanga, José María de Sancha, Cristóbal Medina Conde or José Carrión de Mula, among others, and has researched the Port of Málaga, Historical Cartography, Infrastructures and Urban Planning. He has led the project to recover the biography of Bernardo de Gálvez and has published some 200 works. He has given some 100 lectures. He is the director of the magazine Péndulo, published by the Colegio de Ingenieros Técnicos Industriales, of which he is a member of the Colegio de Honor. First Prize for Cartographic Research in Andalusia, Cross of the Order of Military Merit, Numerary of the Malaga Academy of Sciences, member of the Forum for the Study of the Military History of Spain, Cross of Merit of the Civil Guard and Correspondent of the Royal Academy of History. Source: [Real Academica de Bellas Artes de San Telmo de Málaga ]( (in Spanish). Retrieved on May 15, 2020.
Books
Bernardo de Gálvez
A presente obra supone una nueva e importante contribución al conocimiento de la egregia figura de Bernardo de Gálvez. Recopila nada menos que 35 obras. La primera de ellas es un manuscrito del propio Bernardo de Gálvez, inédito en España, y las restantes, salvo uno, son impresos o manuscritos del XVIII, conservados en bibliotecas de Madrid, Sevilla, México, Washington, Nueva York, Luisiana, Texas, Massachusetts y en el Archivo General de Indias. English: This work is a new and important contribution to the knowledge of the great figure of Bernardo de Gálvez. It compiles no less than 35 works. The first of these is a manuscript by Bernardo de Gálvez himself, unpublished in Spain, and the rest, except one, are printed or manuscripts from the 18th century, preserved in libraries in Madrid, Seville, Mexico, Washington, New York, Louisiana, Texas, Massachusetts and in the General Archive of the Indies.
Bernardo de Gálvez y Gallardo
Biografía de Bernardo de Gálvez, conde de Gálvez y vizconde de Galvestón (1746-1786), militar y político español, héroe de Pensacola, virrey de Nueva España y, a título póstumo, ciudadano honorífico estadounidense. English: Biography of Bernardo de Gálvez, Count of Gálvez and Viscount of Galvestón (1746-1786), Spanish military man and politician, hero of Pensacola, Viceroy of New Spain and posthumous US honorary citizen.
José Gálvez y los Gálvez de Macharaviaya
Este libro constituye una sucinta historia de un denso y excepcional período de la Historia, de una etapa que sería trascendental para la Humanidad, porque en ella comenzarían a implantarse las renovadoras ideas engendradas por la Ilustración en el que ha venido en llamarse el Siglo de las Luces. La obra recoge las biografías de Bernardo de Gálvez, de su padre Matías y de sus tíos José, Miguel y Antonio. English: This book constitutes a brief history of a dense and exceptional period of history, of a stage that would be transcendental for Humanity, because in it the renewing ideas generated by the Enlightenment would begin to be implanted in what has come to be called the Age of Enlightenment. The work includes the biographies of Bernardo de Gálvez, his father Matías and his uncles José, Miguel and Antonio.