Antonio González Lamadrid (1923-1999), scholar
Antonio González Lamadrid (1923-1999) was a Spanish scholar. Born and died in Cantabria (Spain). Churchman. He studied at the Gregorian University and the Pontificial Biblical Institute in Rome, as well as at the Franciscan Biblical Studium in Jerusalem. In the 1940s he joined the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem and participated in the excavations at Qumran. In 1956 he was appointed Vice Dean of the Casa Española de Santiago para Estudios Bíblicos y Orientales, the Spanish Institute for Biblical and Oriental Studies in Jerusalem. He returned to Spain in 1964 and taught at the Biblical School of Madrid, the Pontificial Universities of Comillas (Madrid) and Salamanca, and the University of Burgos. He was also the first Spanish scholar to write on the Qumran finds and the Dead Sea Scrolls. -- Carlos A. Segovia, Camilo José Cela University