GONZÁLEZ Y DÍAZ TUÑÓN, ZEFIRINO. - Neo-Scholastic philosopher, Dominican, restorer of Thomism in Spain, b. at Villoria (Asturias) on 28 Jan. 1831, d. at Madrid on 29 Nov. 1894. He studied at Manila (Philippines) in the University of St. Thomas, where he was later (from 1857) a professor. Having returned to Spain, he taught in the College of Ocaña (1868-71). Appointed bishop of Malaga (1873), the following year he passed to the see of Cordova, then (1883) to the archiepiscopal see of Seville, and finally, having been created cardinal (1884), to that of Toledo (1885), becoming primate of Spain. Having returned, for reasons of health, to the see of Seville (1886), he resigned it in 1889.

Principal works: Estudios sobre la filosofía de Sto Tomas (3 vols., Manila 1864; 2nd ed., ibid. 1866); Philosophia elementaria (3 vols., Madrid 1868; 2nd ed., ibid. 1877); Historia de la filosofía (3 vols., ibid. 1878-79; 2nd ed., 6 vols., ibid. 1885); La Biblia y la ciencia (2 vols., ibid. 1891; 2nd ed., ibid. 1894).

Bibliography

BIBL.: Necrologia in Analecta S. Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum, 3 (1895), pp. 34-41.

Umberto Degl'Innocenti

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González y Díaz Tuñón, Zefirino

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