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[ES]: Se presenta una biografía del Doctor Joaquín González Hidalgo (1839-1923), el principal malacólogo español de los siglos XIX y XX. Además de importantes obras sobre los moluscos españoles, de América del Sur y Filipinas, describió numerosas especies de moluscos en la revista francesa Journal de Conchyliologie. Este trabajo pretende explicar la compleja personalidad del Dr. Hidalgo. Sabemos que además de haber perdido a su hijo en 1885, tuvo una serie de problemas a la hora de conseguir su plaza de profesor de malacología en la Universidad Central y su puesto en el Museo de Ciencias Naturales, puestos que, por diversas razones, fueron ocupados por otras personas. Para ello, hemos estudiado con detalle las introducciones que escribió Hidalgo en sus diferentes libros, donde se ha encontrado un material, que aunque muchas veces repetitivo, explica sus relaciones con otros naturalistas españoles y extranjeros. También citamos, muchas veces entre comillas y en letra cursiva, sus palabras exactas así como textos relacionados de otros autores. Otra pretensión de este artículo es conocer porqué Hidalgo escribió, antes de muchas de sus publicaciones, centenares de páginas de revisión de las obras de malacología que se habían publicado hasta el momento, citando incluso obras escritas en el siglo XVI. Estas revisiones llevaban el nombre de “Obras consultadas”. Esta recopilación, larga, a veces desordenada, y siempre en constante modificación, iba muchas veces acompañada de comentarios que durante una gran parte de su vida vertió Hidalgo contra determinadas personas en capítulos que solía llamar “La malacología en España”. En definitiva, este artículo sugiere que las circunstancias que acompañaron a Hidalgo las dos últimas décadas del siglo XIX en lo referente a la cátedra a la que quiso optar, y a las personas que en realidad la disfrutaron antes que él, son las que hicieron que repitiera en sus trabajos las “Obras consultadas” hasta la extenuación, así como los comentarios, a veces muy hirientes, contra algunos colegas españoles, mientras repetía los elogios que los autores extranjeros hicieron de él y su obra.
[EN]: A biography of Doctor Joaquín González Hidalgo (1839-1923), the main Spanish malacologist of the 19th and 20th centuries, is presented. In addition to important books on Spanish, South American and the Philippines molluscs, he described numerous mollusk species in the French journal Journal de Conchyliologie. This work aims to explain the complex personality of Dr. Hidalgo. We know that in addition to having lost his son in 1885, he had a series of problems to get his position as professor of malacology at the Central University, and his position in the Museum of Natural Sciences, positions that, for various reasons, were occupied by other people. For this, we have studied in detail the introductions that Hidalgo wrote in his different books, where we have found material, that although often repetitive, explains his relations with other Spanish and foreign naturalists. We also quote, often in quotation marks and in italics, his exact words, as well as we do with related texts from other authors. Another pretension of this article is to know why Hidalgo wrote, as introductions of many of his publications, hundreds of pages of revision of works of malacology that had been published so far, citing even works written in the sixteenth century. These revisions were called “Obras consultadas”. These revisions, long, sometimes disorderly, and always in constant change, were often accompanied by comments that Hidalgo poured against certain people, in chapters that he used to call “La malacología en España”. In short, this article suggests that the circumstances that accompanied Hidalgo in relation to the position he wanted to opt for, and the people who actually enjoyed it before him, are what made him repeat in his works the “Obras consultadas” until exhaustion, as well as the comments, sometimes very hurtful, against some Spanish colleagues, while repeating the praises that the foreign authors made of him and his work.
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