Rodrigo amador de los ríos, trayectoria profesional y dirección del museo arqueológico nacional (1911-16)

Abstract

Rodrigo Amador de los Rios, son of the academician José Amador de los Rios, joined the National Archaeological Museum in 1868, but he was dismissed and rejoined in 1875. Student of the Professor of Arabic at the University of Granada, Francisco Javier Simonet, he was the main specialist in Islamic archaeology in Spain during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, publishing the study of Arabic inscriptions of Spain and Portugal (1883) and joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1890. During the last decade of the nineteenth century he met on his trajectory with the rise of Catalina García Lopez, who had the support of the right wing of the Liberal-Conservative Party. After his death he was appointed as director of the National Archaeological Museum from 1911 to 1916 and assumed the direction of excavations at Italica (Seville), when he retired.