Daniel Piedrabuena Ruiz-Tagle (1964). He was born and lived his first nine years of life in Santiago, Chile. He has been living in Spain for forty-one years, mainly in Madrid. Graduate in Law (Uned), Diploma in Business and Tourism Activities (Uned), Advertising Technician (Spanish Center for New Professions). He has been a researcher for seventeen years (1994-2012) at the National Library of Spain, Royal Academy of History, National Historical Archive The Army and Navy archives, the Hispanic Library, the Tavera Foundation, the German Göerres Foundation, and many other archives and libraries. He has also researched in various regional archives, making a total of six trips around Spain. As a result of this enormous research work, he has written the series entitled Los protegidos del César, which is subdivided into two volumes; the first, El conquistador alemán Pedro Lísperguer Wittemberg; and the second, Los Lísperguer Wittemberg: una familia alemana en el corazón de la cultura chilena. A great admirer of his grandmother's work, the author has also written another work entitled Impresiones de Lucía Richard, now as well in its English edition, in which not only he establishes himself as a researcher, but masterfully recounts the major literary and feminist movements of the 1940s and 1950s. He has also recently written Concesión de la Cruz de la Orden de Franz Joseph a Carlos Boríes, Gobernador de Magallanes (1898-1904). The intellectual vocation of the author and his love for the American land that saw him born has led him to continue studying and reading about the literature and history of Latin America and Spain. He is now working on a new and inspiring book focused on 18th century Spain.
