Manuel Siurot

Manuel Siurot Rodríguez (La Palma del Condado, Huelva, 1872 - Seville, 1940), lawyer, judge and substitute magistrate, stands out as an educator, he dedicated his life to teaching poor children.

Biographical information

Manuel Siurot Rodríguez was born in La Palma del Condado, province of Huelva (Andalusia) on December 1, 1872, the son of José Siurot Ruiz and Lutgarda Rodríguez Caro.

In 1881, when he was 9 years old, he moved with his family to Gibraleón (Huelva), where he lived for more than 5 years. At the beginning of 1887 he moved to the city of Huelva, which at that time did not have 20,000 inhabitants. In this city he completed his high school studies, which he finished at the age of 19 with the highest qualification.

In 1892, he enrolled in the preparatory law course at the Literary University of Seville, the city where he lived for the first three years of his degree, finishing the last two courses from Huelva, and graduating with an A in the exercise of the Bachelor's Degree.

In 1901 he married Manuela Mora Claros, with whom he had his only daughter Antonia. He practiced for more than 10 years as a lawyer in Huelva until, at the beginning of 1908, he decided to change his profession to that of a teacher of poor children, collaborating fully in the recently inaugurated Escuelas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús (which are still in force today in Huelva even with a monument), founded by San Manuel González García.

From 1916, after the departure of the founder González García to Málaga, Manuel Siurot assumed full responsibility for the Escuelas del Sagrado Corazón, keeping them running until his death.

He was one of the signatories of the founding manifesto of the Christian Democratic Group.

In 1919 he founded the Free Internship for Teachers, in which until 1934 teaching teaching was taught to young people without resources, giving them complete training that would promote the renewal of school education.

Manuel Siurot was not a school teacher but, among many other things, a lawyer, substitute magistrate, deputy of the National Assembly, extraordinary ambassador in Spanish-American missions, writer and journalist with countless articles published in the newspapers of Seville, Huelva, etc., he would obtain the Mariano de Cavia Prize in 1926 for his article “The triumph of the caravels”. He abandoned his legal and political career to dedicate himself to the great social work of educating poor children.

A member of the Conservative Party, he was a councilor for the Huelva City Council.

In 1927 he was appointed a member of the National Assembly, displaying absolute political neutrality.

He died in Seville on February 27, 1940.

He is currently buried in the Baptismal Chapel of the parish church of La Palma del Condado.

He has streets named after him in La Palma del Condado, Seville, Huelva, Isla Cristina (see Paseo de los Reyes) and other municipalities in the area. Numerous schools in the provinces of Huelva and Seville bear his name.

Works

Pedagogical content

Every Master...(1912)

Children ' s Things (1913)

Light of the summits and glows of the Cross (1923)

Philosophy in drops (1935)

General

La romería del Rocío (1918)

The emotion of Spain (1923)

Salt and Sun (1924)

My relicary of Italy (1916)

The masterpiece of Spain (1931)

Spain, Las Castillas

The new emotion of Spain (1937)

My talks to the General's microphone (1937)

Au Coeur de l'Espagne (1927)

Newspaper Articles

Apart from his permanent collaboration in the magazines El Granito de Arena and Cada Maestrito, which he founded in 1918, he published numerous journalistic articles in the newspapers El Correo de Andalucía and ABC, receiving the Mariano de Cavia prize in 1926.