Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, 2nd Marquis of Luca de Tena
Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena | |
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Born | Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena y García de Torres 23 October 1897 |
Died | 11 January 1975 Madrid, Spain | (aged 77)
Seat E of the Real Academia Española | |
In office 20 January 1946 – 11 January 1975 | |
Preceded by | Joaquín Álvarez Quintero |
Succeeded by | Gonzalo Torrente Ballester |
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Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena y García de Torres, 2nd Marquis of Luca de Tena (Madrid, 23 October 1897 – 11 January 1975) was a Spanish politician, diplomat, journalist and playwright.
Career
Luca de Tena was Member of the Cortes (1958–64) and Ambassador of Spain to Chile (1940–44) and to Greece (1961–62).
Luca de Tena was elected to seat E of the Real Academia Española, he took up his seat on 20 January 1946.
Personal life
His son was the journalist Guillermo Luca de Tena. His daughter, María Victoria Luca de Tena, was married to Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta, a businessman and journalist.
Awards and decorations
- Cross of Military Merit
- Campaign medal for the Civil War
- Order of Merit of the German Eagle
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Chile)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Juan Pablo Duarte (Dominican Republic)
- Order of the Medahuia (Morocco)
- 20th-century Spanish journalists
- 1897 births
- 1975 deaths
- ABC (newspaper) editors
- Politicians from Madrid
- Spanish male dramatists and playwrights
- Members of the Royal Spanish Academy
- Crosses of Naval Merit
- 20th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights
- Ambassadors of Spain to Chile
- Ambassadors of Spain to Greece
- 20th-century male writers
- Spanish dramatist and playwright stubs
- Spanish journalist stubs