Daniel Muñoz Navarro, professor of the Master’s Degree in Cultural Heritage: Identification, Analysis and Management, has collaborated with Las Provincias in the review it has carried out this year, on the occasion of the 150 most influential Valencian people of the last century and a half. Specifically, Muñoz has analysed the bibliography of the lawyer and politician Cirilo Amorós (1830-1887).
24 june 2016
This publication, which has the participation of our professor, is entitled “La huella de 150 valencianos” (“The traces of 150 Valencian people”) and reviews the contributions they have made to society, both in our autonomy and at a national and international level. The compilation includes personalities of different cultural disciplines, so in the long list appear writers, politicians, thinkers, artists, athletes and many other professions.
Daniel Muñoz has contributed to this collection through the biography of Cirilo Amorós, who was born in Valencia in 1830 and occupied the position of Civil Governor, from where he launched one of the most far-reaching initiatives for the Valencian cultural heritage: the demolition of the medieval walls of the city, which started on 20 February 1865. Amorós studied Law at the Universitat de València and became a man with great vocation on politics, actively intervening in the proclamation of Alfonso XII as king in Sagunto and also in the Assembly of Notables that drafted the 1876’s Constitution. A facet he combined with exercising as a lawyer, which led him to be dean of the Valencian Bar Association. Also, he was active in the Moderate Party, from which he was Provincial Councillor between 1862 and 1863.
Thus, among the names of all these distinguished Valencian people we can find Max Aub, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Enric Valor, Luis Casanova, David Albelda, Carmen Calvo, Vicente Ferrer, Luis García Berlanga, Manuel Sanchis Guarner, Nino Bravo, Joan Fuster, Juan Roig, Adela Cortina, Teodor Llorente, Raimon, Santiago Grisolía or Miguel Hernández, among others.
Professor Muñoz belongs to the Department of Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary History of the Universitat and he teaches, together with other professors, the subject of Valencian History and Culture, oriented to know and value the historical heritage and the historical, cultural and social environment of the Kingdom of Valencia in the last centuries.
The subject, included in the first academic year of our master’s degree, provides students the needed resources and perspective to understand the past of the Valencian society and culture and being able of analysing the interrelated factors in its evolution.
