Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes (11 November 1924 - 5 February 2003) was a Spanish philologist, dialectologist, and arabist.
[1] Galmés was born on 11 November 1924 in Madrid, and was the great nephew and pupil of Spanish philologist and historian, Ramón Menéndez Pidal.
[2] He was awarded the Premio Extraordinario in 1954 for his doctoral thesis on the stylistic and syntactic influences of Arabic on medieval Spanish prose.
[1] Galmés returned to Spain in 1964 to assume a post as professor in Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Oviedo.
While at Oviedo, he not only held the position as head of department and dean of the faculty, but was also responsible for the formation of a group of researchers that published numerous studies on romance, Arabic, and Moorish dialectology and literature.