EMILIO CAMPS CAZORLA, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GOMEZ-MORENO AND ELECTED DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM (1903-1952)

Emilio Camps Cazorla began to collaborate with Gomez-Moreno in the Center of Historical Studies from 1916, and graduated in 1925. He specialized in Visigoth, Asturian, Caliph, Mozarabic and Mudejar architecture, the main subjects that Gomez-Moreno. From the academic year 1929-30, at the age of 26, he became the Assistant Professor of the PhD degree in Islamic Archeology at the University of Madrid and in 1930 entered as a curator at the National Archaeological Museum. He opposed twice to succeed Gomez-Moreno in his chair when he retired in 1935, first in June 1936, an opposition that could not be celebrated, and again in 1941. In both oppositions Jose Camon Aznar was the main contender, who has, as accumulated teaching, the professorship of Archeology, Epigraphy and Numismatics in Salamanca since 1928. Camon won the chair in 1941, favored by the change in the Ministry of National Education in the profile of the Professorship, from Medieval Archeology to Medieval Art. Camps also twice opted for the direction of the National Archaeological Museum in 1940 and 1951. First was granted to Taracena in 1940. He returned to try when Navascues resign as interim director in 1951, being appointed director by Ministerial Order of January 15, but his unexpected death, on January 28, 1952, only with 48 years old, prevented him from taking possession. His main archaeological field research was the settlement of the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age of Sanchorreja (Avila) between 1931-35, the Visigoth necropolis of Castiltierra (Segovia) between 1932-34 and the Umayyad caliph city of Madinat al-Zahra (Cordoba) between 1943-47.