Navarro Tomás, Tomás, 1884-1979

Tomás Navarro Tomás (12 April 1884 – 16 September 1979) was a Spanish philologist, librarian and linguist. His work in the field of Spanish Philology is one of the key contributions to the Spanish Scientific modernization movement of the twentieth century that took place in the Center of Historical Studies (Centro de Estudios Históricos, CEH by its initials in Spanish). He is considered one of Professor Ramón Menéndez Pidal's dearest students. He was also an academic with the Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia de Española RAE by its initials in Spanish) [1] and Director of the National Library before he fled Spain with other Republican intellectuals to the United States in 1939 where he founded the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (Academia Norte Americana de la Lengua Espanola ANLE by its initials in Spanish) [2]