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Real Academia Española

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Real Academia Española =
Royal Spanish Academy
Founding of the Society
Year
Authority / Notes
1713
According to the Real Academia Española (RAE) website () the Real Academia Española (RAE) was founded on the initiative of Juan Manuel Fernandez Pacheco, marquis de Villena in 1713 as an academy dedicated to preserving the purity of the Spanish language. Its website () also indicates that King Felipe V approved its constitution on 1714, October 3 and placed the Academy under Royal protection at that time.

Its website () indicates that from 1726 - 1739, the Academy published the great work of Spanish lexicography, the Diccionario de Autoridades. From 1780 - 2001, the Academy also published numerous editions of the Diccionario de la Lengua Española.

The name Real Academia Española is found as early as 1714 in the Bibliot. Nat. España cat. in a record with the following title: Oracion que la Real Academia Española hizo a la Reyna... doña Isabel Farnesio... en ocasión de darla el parabien de su casamiento y feliz llegada a estos Reynos. It also appears in titles published in the following years: 1715, 1725, 1735, 1750, 1759, 1771, 1780, 1783, 1789, 1791, 1796, 1801, 1815, 1818, 1820, 1823, & 1829, among others.

There are, however, publications with the shorter name Academia Española from 1793, 1804, & 1826. The fact that this name was used during the same period as the longer name (with the Royal designation) suggests that the shorter name was used informally, and was not an official name of the Academy.

Seat of the Society
City
Authority / Notes
Madrid
Spain
This location is supported by its website ()
Name of the Society
Dates
Name
Authority
1714 - Real Academia Española Its publications establish this name from 1714 to the present.
Real Academia Española (RAE) = Royal Spanish Academy
Journals of the Society
Years
Full Journal Title
Abbrev.
Indexed
1847-[19??]
 
A
Discursos leódos ante la Real Academia Española en la recepción pública de ...
[CCPR Spanish Union Periodical cat.]
 
 
1865 - 1991
 
B
Real Academia Española
Continued by F.
[CCPR Spanish Union Periodical cat.]
 
 
1870 - 1873
 
C
Memorias de la Academia Española
Continued by D.
[CCPR Spanish Union Periodical cat.]
 
 
1886 - 1926
 
D
Memorias de la Real Academia Española
Continues C.
[CCPR Spanish Union Periodical cat.]
 
 
1914 -
 
E
Boletín de la Real Academia Española
[CCPR Spanish Union Periodical cat.]
 
 
1992 -
 
F
Anuario - Real Academia Española
Continues B.
[CCPR Spanish Union Periodical cat.]
 
 

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