Alberto Lista

Alberto Lista studied at University of Seville. Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz is recorded as having studied under Alberto Lista. The recorded working language is Spanish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are poetry. Employment is recorded with Universidad Central and University of Seville. Positions recorded include canon and member of the Real Academia de la Historia.

He was born in Seville. He began teaching at the age of fifteen, and when little over twenty was made professor of elocution and poetry at the University of Seville. In 1813 he was exiled, on political grounds, but pardoned in 1817. He then returned to Spain and, after teaching for three years at Bilbao, started a critical review at Madrid. Shortly afterwards he founded the celebrated college of San Mateo in that city. The liberal character of the San Mateo educational system was not favored by the government, and in 1823 the college was closed. Lista after some time spent in Bayonne, Paris and London was recalled to Spain in 1833 to edit the official Madrid Gazette. He was one of the founders of the Ateneo, the free university of Madrid, and up till 1840 was director of a college at Cádiz. All the leading spirits of the young generation of Spaniards, statesmen, writers, soldiers and diplomatists came under his influence. He died in Seville on October 5, 1848.

He was employed by Universidad Central and University of Seville. Recorded positions include canon, member of the Real Academia de la Historia and Member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He belonged to Royal Spanish Academy and Royal Academy of History.