Juan Ortega y Rubio. The teaching of History at the University of Valladolid and its historiographic projection

Abstract

Juan Ortega y Rubio can be considered one of the first professors and professional researchers who developed the discipline of history from the University of Valladolid in the 19^th Century. Not only did he participate in intellectual fields of great interest with well-known teachers and students in the Spanish historiographic scene (from Castelar to Ramón Carande or Sánchez Albornoz), but he has also left a very wide legacy: from the very creation of a History of Valladolid (the fourth of those that were written), the edition of the first of these characteristics made in the 17^th Century, as wel as important and widely spread textbooks about Universal History and Spain. At the culmination of his careers, new publications on the History of America and even History of the Regency of María Cristina de Habsburgo-Lorena arrived. All this, one hundred years after his death (1845-1921), when he had already retired as a professor at the Central University.