Cándido Bolívar Pieltain
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Cándido Bolívar Pieltain (1897, Madrid
Madrid
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 - 1976, Mexico
Mexico
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). He studied in Ciudad Real
Ciudad Real
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. When he was 14, his article “Observaciones sobre algunas cuevas del Norte de España y descripción de una nueva especie de ‘Speocharis’” was published in the Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural.

When he was 17 years old, he went to the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, to study sciences.

In 1924, he married Amelia Goyanes and they had six children. He traveled to places like Italy
Italy
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, Greece
Greece
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, Morocco
Morocco
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 and the USA.

After the Spanish Civil War
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, he moved to Mexico
Mexico
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, where he died in 1976.

Works

  • Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Serie zoológica, Anales de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Eos, Ciencia.
  • Ciencia. Revista hispano-americana de Ciencias puras y aplicadas. In Mexico.
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