ROCA Y LÓPEZ, Pedro.Tarancón (Cuenca) 9.10.1856 — Madrid 21.1.1903. Spanish Librarian. Educated in Cuenca, studies at Madrid. Dr.phil. In Sanskrit student of Gelabert y Gordiola, as librarian of Barcelona University gave first Sanskrit teaching there. From 1889 worked in Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid
Publications: Review of Gelabert y Gordiola’s Manual de lengua sanscrita in La Unión católica 24. & 26.5.1890.
– Long introduction to his student’s, Alemany y Bolufer’s, translation of the Hitopadeza. Granada 1895.
– Also wrote on Arabic and on the history of Arabic period in Spain.
Sources: Alvarez 62; M. Menéndez Pelayo, Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos 1903, 93-98; Spanish Wikipedia briefly; stray notes in Internet.
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