Nicolás Estévanez
Spanish military officer, politician, essayist and poet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicolás Estévanez Murphy (17 February 1838 – 19 August 1914) was a Spanish military officer, politician, essayist and poet. A federal republican, he briefly served as civil governor of Madrid and as Minister of War in the wake of the proclamation of the First Spanish Republic.[1] A defender of the Africanness of his native Canary Islands,[2] which were a central motif of his written work,[3] he espoused a blend of anti-european, atheist, anticlerical, revolutionary and anarchist ideals.[4] While he showed an unwavering commitment to Spanish patriotism, Estévanez has been reconstructed as a sort of father of Canarian nationalism by Canarian nationalist authors.[3] He was a close collaborator of Francisco Pi y Margall.[5]