Early Life, Family and Training Born Antonio Cánovas del Castillo y Vallejo on 22 December 1862 in Madrid, Spain, the man who would later be known as Kaulak grew up in the shadow of significant political weight. His uncle was the prominent politician Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, a figure whose life ended in assassination by an anarchist in 1897. This family connection prompted the use of a pseudonym, a choice that would follow him th…