Jose Bernal Gutierrez. Born in Marbella on November 3, 1974. He graduated in Philosophy and Ph.D. in gender relations at the University of Malaga. In little more than a decade as a researcher, and despite his busy and successful activity in local politics, the merits of Jose Bernal grow continuously. Is Professor of History, Social Civic advisory field of CEP Marbella-Coin, a member of the Andalusian Historical Research Group of the UMA, and has published in various journals and contributed to collective works.
It has now completed his doctoral thesis precisely on the origins of The Marbella Iron Ore C & L and the six-democratic.
Although his work has more to do with economic history, has faced historical studies also from the social and political aspect. So, has addressed the relation between Church and Society in Marbella at the end of the seventeenth century, the War of Independence in the western coastal area of Malaga or Marbella, 1836 in the context of the First Carlist War, article in that will review the situation experienced in our city against the threat of the column Gómez, in November 1836. It will be recalled in this connection that psychosis that occurred in the city prompted authorities to order the eviction of the file and transfer to a ship to protect it from the violence factious.
As economic history, has signed several articles on the economic situation of the Marbella of democratic presidential term, and has studied extensively the Marbella British mining and colonization, for which it has recovered the historical process of mining, has compiled a list mine, has studied companies that exploited, extraction methods, infrastructure that were created and, finally, has conducted a fairly revealing the minerals that are lavished on the saw. To do this, he has consulted a vast and varied material from files Marbella, Malaga, Granada, Madrid or London.
He is the author of two books: one on the land of Ensenada in Benalmádena and another on the history of the PSOE in Marbella and San Pedro, and, finally, is the author, along with Oscar Carrascosa, work that was awarded this year The V Award for Historical Research Vazquez Clavel, and which concerns the romantic travelers in the nineteenth century Marbella. A book that we will soon have the opportunity to read, and to be issued by the city of Marbella.
Through this work has threaded a speech imposing the rigor and an impeccable academic approach, with a fondness for figures and accuracy comparable only to that of José Luis Casado.
On the other hand, it is remarkable the work being done in the field of training professorial, with the implementation of courses and training activities, as is the case with this lecture series, which from the outset, without hesitation, decided to support and organize next to the Municipal Archives. File that is well to remember, he was attached when it has deterred the military authorities failed to provide civil and there was an alternative service for the inventory of the fund.
In short, this is what we have deduced that a researcher committed to history, his teaching, the lessons of history and ways of teaching history. And we have, and this is found easily, a man always ready to provide necessary assistance, either when demand their knowledge, their work, their presence or just friendship.
