Serafin Baroja
| Serafín Baroja | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 September 1840 San Sebastián |
| Died | 16 July 1912 (aged 71) Vera de Bidasoa |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Ethnicity | Basque |
| Notable works | El Urumea, Bai, Juana, Bai, Pudente |
| Children |
Ricardo Baroja (1871–1953) Pío Baroja (1872–1956) Carmen Baroja (1883–1950) |
Serafín Baroja (22 September 1840 – 16 July 1912) was a Basque writer and mining engineer who wrote popular Basque poetry and lyrics. He was the father of a trio of illustrious children who left a deep mark on the art and literature of 20th-century Spain: Ricardo Baroja, painter, engraver and writer; Pío Baroja, novelist and essayist who ranks as one of the major writers of Spain's Generation of 98; and Carmen Baroja, writer, ethnologist and co-founder of the Lyceum Women's Club in Madrid.
Serafín was born in San Sebastián, the son of Pío Baroja Zornotza, publisher of the newspaper El Liberal Guipuzcoano during the Trienio Liberal. Serafín's grandfather, Rafael Martinez Baroja (b. 1770), had been the printer of the newspaper La Papeleta de Oyarzun (The Ballot of Oiartzun) during the Peninsular War against Napoleon I. Serafín studied mine engineering at the Polytechnic School of Engineering in Madrid, where he befriended the politician Pascual Madoz. In 1866, he married Carmen Nessi y Goñi (1849–1935), who was of Italian and Basque descent. After completing his studies he went down to the ancient copper mines of Minas de Río Tinto in Huelva as chief engineer in 1868.
Dario, his first son, was born in 1869, followed by Ricardo on 12 January 1870. Disillusioned when he saw that the mines were going to be sold to a group of English investors (later becoming the British-Australian consortium the Rio Tinto Group), he moved his family to San Sebastián and devoted himself to writing novels, operas and operettas. Their third son, Pío, was born on 28 December 1872.
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