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{{Short description|Spanish author (1799–1867)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Serafín Estébanez Calderón
| office              = Deputy of the [[Cortes Generales]]<br><small>for [[Coín]]</small>
| term_start          = {{start date|1847|01|08}}
| term_end            = {{end date|1847|12|02}}<ref name=congreso1>{{cite web |url=https://www.congreso.es/en/historico-diputados?p_p_id=historicodiputados&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_historicodiputados_mvcRenderCommandName=mostrarDetalle&_historicodiputados_nume=16267 |title=ESTEBANEZ CALDERON , SERAFIN 16. Elecciones 6.12.1846 |publisher=Congreso de los Diputados |access-date=2024-08-16}}</ref>
| office1             = Deputy of the Cortes Generales<br><small>for [[Ourense (Congress of Deputies constituency)|Ourense]]</small>
| termstart1          = 1843<ref name=congreso2>{{cite web |url=https://www.congreso.es/en/historico-diputados?p_p_id=historicodiputados&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_historicodiputados_mvcRenderCommandName=mostrarDetalle&_historicodiputados_nume=14217 |title=ESTEBANEZ CALDERON , SERAFIN 14. Elecciones 15.9.1843 |publisher=Congreso de los Diputados |access-date=2024-08-16}}</ref>
| termend1            = {{end date|1846|10|31}}<ref name=congreso3>{{cite web |url=https://www.congreso.es/en/historico-diputados?p_p_id=historicodiputados&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_historicodiputados_mvcRenderCommandName=mostrarDetalle&_historicodiputados_nume=15253 |title=ESTEBANEZ CALDERON , SERAFIN 15. Elecciones 3.9.1844 |publisher=Congreso de los Diputados |access-date=2024-08-16}}</ref>
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1799|12|27}}
| birth_place         = [[Málaga]], [[History of Spain (1700–1808)|Spain]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1867|02|05|1799|12|27}}
| death_place         = [[Madrid]], [[History of Spain (1808–1874)|Spain]]
| occupation          = [[Writer]], [[Politician|politician]], [[Lawyer|lawyer]], [[Historian|historian]] & [[Poet|poet]]
| nickname            = El Solitario
| office2             = [[Senate of Spain|Senator]] of the [[Cortes Generales]]<br><small><i>([[Senator for life]])</i></small>
| image               = 1883, «El Solitario» y su tiempo, biografía de D. Serafín Estébanez Calderón y crítica de sus obras, El Solitario, B. Maura (cropped).jpg
| caption             = El Solitario
| signature           = Firma de «El Solitario».svg
| term2               = 1853 – 1867<ref name=senado1>{{cite web |url=https://www.senado.es/web/conocersenado/senadohistoria/senado18341923/senadores/fichasenador/index.html?id1=956 |title=ESTÉBANEZ CALDERÓN, SERAFÍN |publisher=Senado de España |language=es |access-date=2024-08-16}}</ref>
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'''Serafín Estébanez Calderón''' (27 December 1799 &ndash; 5 February 1867) was a Spanish writer, best known by the pseudonym of '''El Solitario'''. He was born in [[Málaga]]. His first literary effort was ''El listón verde'', a poem signed "Safinio" and written to celebrate the revolution of 1820. He was called to the bar, and settled for some time in [[Madrid]], where he published a volume of verses in 1831 under the assumed name of "El Solitario." He obtained an exaggerated reputation as an [[Arabic]] scholar, and played a minor part in the political movements of his time. He died in Madrid in 1867. His most interesting work, ''Escenas andaluzas'' (1847), is in an affected style, the vocabulary being partly archaic and partly provincial; but, despite its eccentric mannerisms, it is a vivid record of picturesque scenes and local customs. Estébanez Calderón is also the author of an unfinished history, ''De la conquista y pérdida de Portugal'' (1883), issued posthumously under the editorship of his nephew, [[Antonio Cánovas del Castillo]].
==References==
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{{EB1911|wstitle=Estébanez Calderón, Serafín|volume=9|page=794}}
== External links ==
* {{Gutenberg author |id=6151| name=Serafín Estébanez Calderón}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Serafín Estébanez Calderón |sopt=w}}
* {{Internet Archive author |name=El Solitario}}
* {{Librivox author|id=1057}}
*[http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Seraf%C3%ADn_Estébanez_Calderón Serafín Estébanez Calderón, Wikisource en español]
*[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100510390 Poesías de D. S. Estébanez Calderón: (El Solitario), hathitrust.org]
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[[Category:Spanish male writers]]
[[Category:Writers from Málaga]]
[[Category:1799 births]]
[[Category:1867 deaths]]