Juan Marichal (historian) Juan Marichal (February 2, 1922 –
August 9, 2010) was a Spanish-Canarian historian, literary
critic and essayist. Marichal also served as a professor at
Harvard University. Marichal spent years in exile during the
Franco dictatorship following the end of the Spanish Civil War.
Marichal was born on February 2, 1922, in Santa Cruz de
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. He moved with his family to
Madrid in 1935. However, he soon relocated to both Valencia and
Barcelona before attending school in Paris, France. He graduated
from French lycee in Casablanca, near the end of the Spanish
Civil War. In 1941, Marichal boarded a ship with other exiles
from the Spanish Civil War and sailed from Casablanca to Mexico
at just 19 years old. He enrolled at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico, where he studied literature and
philosophy. He worked at a box factory as a student to pay for
his tuition. Marichal became a professor at Luis Vives
Institute, an organization in Mexico founded by Spania