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Spanish politician (1852-1932) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ángel Pulido Fernández (1852–1932) was a Spanish physician, publicist and Liberal politician, who stood out as prominent philosephardite during the Restoration.[1]
Born on 2 February 1852 in the calle de las Infantas, Madrid,[2] to a humble Catholic family of Asturian origin.[3] He took studies in Medicine during the Sexenio Democrático (1868–1874).[3]
He vowed to rebuild the links between and the Sephardi Jews, descendant of those expelled from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century.[4] He coined the expression españoles sin patria (Spaniards without a homeland) to refer to Sephardi Jews.[1] His brand of Philosephardism, marked by a racialist approach, was not exempt, not unlike other philosephardists, from a certain degree of Islamophobia, and also stressed the superiority of Sephardi Jews over Ashkenazim.[5] Aside from the pro-Sephardi cause, he also campaigned for humanization of the death penalty, for the professionalization of veterinarians, in favour of blind people and in favour of conscription.[6]
He became a member of the National Royal Academy of Medicine.[2] Elected Senator by the Academy of Medicine in 1899, and later in 1903 by the University of Salamanca, Pulido became a Senator for life in 1910.[7]
He died on 4 December 1932.[2]
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