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In civilian life he worked as a tax collector and an accountant, occupations that brought him into contact with the bureaucratic and mercantile structures of his society. He also received part of his education at the University of Salamanca, adding a formal scholarly dimension to a biography otherwise shaped by practical engagement with the world.\n\nAs a writer, Cervantes worked in Spanish across several distinct forms. He was a novelist, a poet, and a playwright, producing work that ranged from prose fiction to verse to theatrical composition. Among all his output, Don Quixote stands as his notable work, the title most directly connected to his name across the record of his career.\n\nCervantes died in Madrid in April 1616, with different sources giving the date as either the twenty-second or the twenty-third of that month. 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