[1] At the end of the Spanish Civil War Ímaz was forced into exile in Mexico, where he shortly after participated in the constitution of the Junta de Cultura Española as vice-secretary under the direction of José Bergamín.
[1] Here he continued his work publishing España Peregrina and Romance, and he joined the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México as a professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.
In the summer of 1939, in the company of his wife, the German Hilde Jahnke, and their children, Carlos y Víctor, he arrived in Mexico as a refugee.
Besides his translation of Dilthey, his works included those of Immanuel Kant, Jacob Burckhardt, Johan Huizinga and Ernst Cassirer.
[1] When he was planning a trip to the Universidad de Puerto Rico to become a member of the staff of philosophy professors, he died in the Mexican city of Veracruz.