Diego Abad de Santillán
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| Born | May 20, 1897 Reyero, León |
| Died | October 18, 1983 (aged 86) Barcelona |
| Nationality | Spanish and Argentine |
| Occupation | Historian |
Diego Abad de Santillán (May 20, 1897 – October 18, 1983), born Sinesio Vaudilio García Fernández, was an author, economist and leading figure in the Spanish and Argentine anarchist movements.
Born in Reyero, a mountain village in the province of León in northwestern Spain, in 1897, Santillán emigrated at the age of eight with his parents to Argentina. From the age of ten he was attending night school, while working during the day at a variety of jobs, in particular on the railways. He returned to Spain in 1912, studying for his baccalaureate in León, before entering the University of Madrid in 1915 to read Philosophy and Literature. After the General Strike of 1917 he was imprisoned in Madrid, where he came into contact with the anarchist movement in the person of Tomás Herreros – and then, after release under amnesty in 1918, returned to Argentina, working as an activist for the anarcho-syndicalist Federación Obrera Regional Argentina (FORA), and editing its weekly newspaper La Protesta.
In 1922 Santillán represented FORA at the formation of the anarcho-syndicalist International Workingmen's Association (IWMA) in Berlin; while there he began to study Medicine, and came to know Elise Kater, who was to become his wife. The first of many works on the history and theory of anarchism were published at this time – Ricardo Flores Magón: Apostle of the Mexican Social Revolution and Anarchism in the Labour Movement both appeared in 1925.
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