Resumen de Daniel Jiménez de Cisneros a través de sus escritos: facetas humanas de un científico
In short four parts, I examine the character and personality of my grandfather, Daniel Jiménez de Cisneros. He was an innovative teacher, who brought about new methodologies in his lessons, and an internationally reputable scientist. He acquired two interesting collections of minerals and fossils and discovered new species. I will try to present the private man whose endured by a hard youth due to lack of money and poor health, but who developed through his studies and work into a respectable teacher, a father of five children and a very sociable person with different interests, ranging from "do it yourself" (he made himself the boxes and placards for his scientific collections), literature (he wrote in a variety of genres: poems, drama, short stories, etc.) and photography to natural life and travelling. His political, religious and social ideas, made public through his autobiographical books and newspaper articles, show an open-minded person, somewhat sceptic and fiercely opposed to superstition and ignorance. His letters and, specially, his memoirs -two books published during his lifetime and also after his death- show that he was a kind man, well liked by everybody, very fond of his family and his friends, who came from every step in the social ladder and from every milieu. One cannot understand his scientific achievement without first looking at the impact that his tenacity, friendship and other moral and social qualities had on a work like his.
