José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (April 19, 1832 – September 14, 1916) was a
Spanish civil engineer,
mathematician, , and one of the leading
Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904
Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama".