Amalio Gimeno, 1st Count of Gimeno
Amalio Gimeno y Cabañas, Count of Gimeno, ( born May 31, 1852 in Cartagena, † September 13, 1936 in Madrid) was a Spanish physician, scientist and politician. He held the posts of Minister of Education, Marine Minister, Interior Minister, Development Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Gimeno studied medicine in Madrid and in 1875 professor of pathology at the University of Santiago de Compostela. 1877 - 1888 he taught at the University of Valencia, 1888, he received the Hygiene Institute in Madrid and moved there in 1891 back to the local pathology department. During the Spanish cholera epidemic of 1885, he distinguished himself from following the theories of chef Ferran and by his advocacy for mass vaccinations.
To Gimenos numerous Would counted the Presidency of the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina, and the membership of the Real Academia Española, the Real Academia de Ciencias and the Academia de Bellas Artes.
As a politician, he was a member of the Partido Liberal (Spain) and in 1886 elected to the province of Valencia in the House of Representatives, from 1893 to 1908 sent him the University of Valencia in the Senate, after which he was appointed senator for life and 1910-11 as Vice President of house of Lords acted. Some 15 years passed was Gimeno in various functions ministers in mostly short-lived cabinets.
As Minister of Culture ( 6 July to 4 December 1906) in a cabinet of José López Domínguez, he laid the foundation for the creation of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios. The same minister, he held on 3 April 1911 to 12 March 1912 in a government canalejas from. He was among other things, twice Secretary of the Navy, from December 31, 1912 to October 27, 1913 the Conde de Romanones and 3 November 1917 to 22 March 1918 in a cabinet García Prieto.
His last ministerial office as Minister of Development, he held December 12, 1919 and February 14, 1920 from among Allendesalazar. 1920, the hereditary title Conde de Gimeno, he was awarded. In 1923 he was a delegate of Spain to the fourth conference of the League of Nations.