Manuel Polo y Peyrolón

Manuel Polo y Peyrolón
Born	Manuel Polo y Peyrolón 1846 Cañete, Spain
Died	1918 (aged 71–72) Valencia, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	scholar
Known for	novelist
Political party	Partido Carlista

Manuel Polo y Peyrolón (1846 – 1918) was a Spanish novelist, philosopher, academic and a Carlist politician.

Manuel Polo y Peyrolón was born in Cañete, a village on the Western slopes of Montes Universales, a southern ridge of Sistema Ibérico. Located in the Castillan Province of Cuenca, the area bordered the regions of Aragón and Valencia and formed part of what was once known as Alto Maestrazgo. He was descendant to a petty bourgeoisie family. His father, Domingo Polo, originated from the Aragonese city of Belchite; during the First Carlist War he sided with the legitimists and served as a secretary of general José María Arévalo y Requeno. Following the Carlist defeat he had to abandon his job and settled in Cañete, practicing as a lawyer; by the end of his life Domingo entered an uspecified religious order and became a friar. Manuel's mother, María Peyrolón, was also Aragonese from Calomarde. Following her early death in 1853, Manuel and his younger brother were partially looked after by her sister Concepción. Spending most of his childhood and youth with relatives in Gea de Albarracín, he considered himself a turolense.

Manuel was brought up in a fervently Catholic ambience, politically strongly flavored by Carlism. He graduated in filosofia y letras from in Madrid and in derecho civil y canonico from Universidad de Valencia, guided by Miguel Vicente Almazán and obtaining later PhD laurels in philosophy. Following a brief and temporary episode as professor auxiliar of metafisica in Valencia in 1868-69, he returned to Aragón and successfully applied to Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza de Teruel, where he commenced teaching Psicología, Lógica y Ética in 1870. Manuel Polo y Peyrolón has never married and had no children.

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