Obras famosas de pio baroja biography

Spanish writer (1872–1956)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Baroja and the second or maternal family name is Nessi.

Pío Baroja y Nessi (28 December 1872 – 30 October 1956) was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98.

He was a member of an illustrious family. His brother Ricardo was a painter, writer and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja, son of his younger sister Carmen, was a well-known anthropologist.

Biography

Pío was born in San Sebastián, Guipuzcoa, the son of Serafin Baroja, also a noted writer and opera librettist.^[1][2][3]

The young Baroja studied medicine at University of Valencia and received a doctorate at the Complutense University in Madrid at 21.

Although educated as a physician, Baroja practiced only briefly in the Basque town of Cestona.^[4] His memories of student life became the raw material for his novel The Tree of Knowledge.^&