Education
He is one of the persons who most deeply studied Villena and its surrounding area, since the vast majority of his research was focused on what concerned his hometown.
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Jose Maria Soler Garcia
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Career
In 1957 he founded Villena"s Archaeological Museum with the findings he had collected from the 1920s on. In 1963, after he found the Treasure of the Cabezo Redondo in March and the Treasure of Villena in December, the museum"s name was officially changed to Archaeological Museum "José María Soler". The José María Soler Foundation, constituted after his death, calls every year Research in order to keep alive Soler"s legacy.
: desde la Prehistoria hasta el siglo XVIII (re-ed 2009).
Achievements
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Musicology Award of Spanish National Research Council, on the Cancionero popular de Villena (1949) Golden Medal of Villena (1973) Bronze Medal in Fine Arts (1980) Montaigne Award of Hamburg"s FvS Foundation (1981) Doctor honoris causa by Universidad de Alicante (1985) Gold Medal of the Province of Alicante (1991) In addition, Villena"s City Hall gave his name to one street in the old part of the city in 1979.
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Born
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Nationality
Spain
Awards
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Musicology Award of CSIC, on the Cancionero popular de Villena (1949) Golden Medal of Villena (1973) Bronze Medal in Fine Arts (1980) Montaigne Award of Hamburg's FvS Foundation (1981) Doctor honoris causa by Universidad de Alicante (1985) Gold Medal of the Province of Alicante (1991) In addition, Villena's City Hall gave his name to one street in the old part of the city in 1979.Musicology Award of CSIC, on the Cancionero popular de Villena (1949) Golden Medal of Villena (1973) Bronze Medal in Fine Arts (1980) Montaigne Award of Hamburg's FvS Foundation (1981) Doctor honoris causa by Universidad de Alicante (1985) Gold Medal of the Province of Alicante (1991) In addition, Villena's City Hall gave his name to one street in the old part of the city in 1979.