Miguel de Cervantes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Miguel de Cervantes
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Sep 29, 1547(1547-09-29)
Age	477
Date Of Death	April 22, 1616
Birthplace	Alcalá de Henares
Country	Spain
Birth City	Community of Madrid
Horoscope	Virgo

Miguel de Cervantes Biography

Miguel de Cervantes is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on September 29, 1547 in Alcalá de Henares, Community of Madrid, Spain. Spanish author of Don Quixote, his masterpiece novel. This early 17th-century novel tells the story about a man who is so obsessed by reading chivalrous stories that he believes he’s a knight.

Vanessa Williams appeared in a film based on Cervantes’ famous work, Don Quixote. was a star in a film that was based on Cervantes’ famous work Don Quixote.

Rodrigo was both a surgeon and a barber. His mother was sold to him in matrimony by her poor father in 1543. Six siblings were his six children. In 1584, he married Catalina de Salazar y Palacios and he had a daughter named Isabel de Saavedra.

Miguel de Cervantes Net Worth

Miguel de Cervantes is one of the richest Novelist from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Miguel de Cervantes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In his youth, he worked as an assistant for a Roman priest. Later, he enlisted in Spanish Navy. He had a plan as a young man to escape and marry his lover. However, Cervantes’ father found out about the plan and prohibited him from seeing Cervantes again.

His most famous work is about the hero who rides around the countryside with his ward Sancho Panza and searches for knightly tasks.

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Facts & Trivia

Miguel Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Miguel de Cervantes celebrates birthday on September 29 of every year.

What is Miguel de Cervantes known for?

Miguel de Cervantes is the most important and celebrated figure in Spanish literature. He is best known for being the author of Don Quixote (1605, 1615), a widely read literary classic.

Why Miguel de Cervantes wrote Don Quixote?

Cervantes himself states that he wrote Don Quixote in order to undermine the influence of those “vain and empty books of chivalry” as well as to provide some merry, original, and sometimes prudent material for his readers’ entertainment.

How did Miguel de Cervantes change the world?

Miguel de Cervantes was one of the most influential writers of all times, writing the first major European novel and contributing to both the Spanish and English languages. Although known best for Don Quijote, Cervantes also wrote dozens of other novels, short stories, poems, and plays.

Why is Don Quixote so important?

Don Quixote is considered by literary historians to be one of the most important books of all time, and it is often cited as the first modern novel. The character of Quixote became an archetype, and the word quixotic, used to mean the impractical pursuit of idealistic goals, entered common usage.

How did Miguel de Cervantes influence the Renaissance?

He is referred to as the “founding father” of Latin American literature. His most famous novel-Don Quixote-has been translated in more than 60 different languages and was the first novel to be published using the printing press. All of this leads to prove that Miguel de Cervantes is the Renaissance man.