Miguel de Unamuno

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Spanish philosopher, died 1936. Professor of Greek, then Chancellor, of the University of Salamanca. Wrote the novel "Amor y pedagogía" ("Love and Pedagogy"). Spain's leading intellectual in the 1920-1936 period, if not earlier.

Died of natural causes, in his sleep, under house arrest, at the outset of the Spanish Civil War. Death was a key topic in his thought, and he opined that to die while sleeping was the best way.