"My dear fellow, I don't exactly know what you mean by a dramatic spring. All I can tell you is that I have not the slightest interest in plays where love does not preponderate – above all unfortunate love, for I have enough of happy love at home." (Don Julian in The Great Galeoto, 1881) José Echegaray y Eizaguirre was born in Madrid to parents of Basque descent. The family moved to Murcia, where his father held a professorship in Greek at the Institute of Murcia. At the age of fourteen Echegaray returned to Madrid. In 1853 he graduated from the Escuela de Caminos and became in 1858 a professor of mathematics of the same institute. In 1857 he married Ana Perfecta Estrada; they had one daughter. - مجهول الطفولة حيث لا تتوفر معلومات عن والديه لكن يبدو ان ابرز عامل في حياته هو انفصاله عن والديه وهو في سن الرابعة عشرة حيث عاد الى اسبانيا لاستكمال دراسته وهو ما يمثل يتم اجتماعي لكننا سنعتبره مجهول الطفولة. مجهول الطفولة.