Serafín Baroja (22 September 1840 – 16 July 1912) was a Spanish writer and mining engineer who wrote popular Basque poetry and lyrics.

After completing his studies he went down to the ancient copper mines of Minas de Río Tinto in Huelva as chief engineer in 1868.

The next year, he wrote the libretto for the first Basque opera, Pudente, a story set in the mines of Rio Tinto at the time of Trajan.

[1] In 1893, he took his family with him to the mines at Burjassot near Valencia, returning the next year to Madrid to help Juana Nessi, whose husband had just died.

Enero y Febrero de 1876 ("Chronicle of the Carlist War: January and February 1876") with a prologue by his grandson, Julio Caro Baroja.

Carmen, as a woman, had to rebel against the traditions that defined her gender to become a writer, an ethnologist and a co-founder of the first feminist group in Spain.