Julian Marias
- Category : 1914-births
- Type : ME
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Eden 2
Biography
Spanish philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was a pupil of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset.
Marías wrote on a wide variety of subjects during his long career. A subject of particular interest was Cervantes's Don Quixote. In 1964 he was elected into the Real Academia Española, and he won a Prince of Asturias award in 1996.
He is the father of novelist Javier Marías and art historian Fernando Marías, and married the sister of director Jesús Franco.
He died on 15 December 2005, aged 91, in Madrid.