CLEMENCIN, DIEGO (1765-1834), Spanish scholar and politician, was born at Murcia, and educated there at the Colegio de San Fulgencio. In 1807 he became editor of the Gaceta de Madrid, and in the following year was condemned to death by Murat for publishing a patriotic article ; he fled to Cadiz, and under the Junta Central held various posts from which he was dismissed by the reactionary government of 1814. During the liberal regime (182o-23) Clemencin took office as colonial minis ter, was exiled till 1827, and in 1833 published the first volume of his edition (1833-39) of Don Quixote.