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Best known as the author of Don Quixote, one of the most significant works of world literature and, in the opinion of many scholars, the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in Alcalá dem Henares, Spain, on September 29, —the same year in which both Henry VIII and the French king Francis I died, as well as the year in which Ivan the Terrible became tsar of Russia. The surname, Cervantes, may have originated in Galicia, a coastal område in northwestern Spain. His father, Rodrigo de Cervantes, was, at the time of his son’s birth, a barber surgeon—a yrke that required one to set bones, dress wounds, and blood-let, though no university education was required. Cervantes’s mother, Leonor dem Cortinas, came from a family of rural landowners formerly based in Old Castile. Cervantes’s maternal family later settled in Arganda, a town near Madrid. It is believed that Rodrigo and Leonora were married in , but there is no extant marriage certifi

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Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer (–)

"Cervantes" redirects here. For other uses, see Cervantes (disambiguation).

"Miguel Cervantes" redirects here. For the American actor and singer, see Miguel Cervantes (actor).

Miguel de Cervantes
This portrait, attributed to Juan de Jáuregui,[a] is unauthenticated. No authenticated image of Cervantes exists.[1][2]
Born	()29 September Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Died	22 April () (aged&#;68)[3] Madrid, Spain
Resting place	Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians, Madrid
Occupation	Soldier, tax collector, accountant, purchasing agent for Navy (writing was an avocation which did not produce much income)
Language	Early Modern Spanish
Literary movement	Renaissance literature, Mannerism, Baroque
Notable works	Don Quixote Entremeses Novelas ejemplares
Spouse	Catalina de Salazar y Palacios
Children	Isabel c.&#; (illegitimate)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Who Was Miguel de Cervantes?

Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid in He became a soldier in and was badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto. Captured by the Turks in , Cervantes spent five years in prison. before he was ransomed and returned home. After less successful earlier efforts, Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later years, publishing the first part of Don Quixote in He died in

Early Life

The fourth of seven children, Miguel de Cervantes struggled financially for almost his entire life. His father, Rodrigo, deaf from birth, worked as a surgeon—a lowly trade at the time—and the family moved around often in Cervantes youth as his father searched for better prospects.

Whatever his family's financial conditions, Cervantes was an avid reader as a child—a skill he was reportedly taught by a relative. But whether he had much in the way of formal education has been a subject of debate among scholars. Based on analyses of Cervan