Curriculum

When he was still very young, Manuel Soto started to work as a typesetter in the printer ?Pujol? in Lugo. When he was twenty-five years old, he created his own company becoming the first editor that planned a complete publishing process in Galicia. He opened two great collections, one about religion and another one that had several sections. He published many works, being the most important for Galician culture the two first volumes of Historia de Galicia (Galician History) by Murguía and Gramática Gallega (Galician Grammar) by J.A. Saco y Arce.From 1869 onwards, his publishing house reached the crisis point because of his ideological intolerance towards the democratic freedom that involved press freedom.