Antoni Rubió i Lluch ( es, Antonio Rubió y Lluch;

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1856 –

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1937) was a Spanish historian and intellectual who published in

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, he left his mark on the study of the Catalan period in Greece, ca. 1301 – ca. 1409.

Biography

Son of the poet Joaquim Rubió i Ors, Rubió y Lluch studied

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and

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at the

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under

Manuel Milà i Fontanals Manuel Milà i Fontanals (; May 4, 1818 – July 16, 1884) was a Spanish scholar. He was born at Vilafranca del Penedès, near Barcelona, and was educated first in Barcelona, and afterwards at the University of Cervera. In 1845, he became pro ...

and Francesc Xavier Llorens i Barba and in the company of

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, who was a longtime friend and colleague. The two are icons of Catalan

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. In 1880 he became a tutor in the literature faculty there and in 1885 a full professor of general literature at the

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, from which he was transferred to Barcelona. In 1889 he became a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona. In 1904 he taught

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at the Estudis Universitaris Catalans and in 1906 he was vice-president of the (I Congrés Internacional de la Llengua Catalana / Primer Congrés Internacional de la Llengua Catalana). The next year (1907) he was named both a member and the first president of the

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. He later presided over the

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in Barcelona. Politically, Rubió y Lluch defended

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aspirations for

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and, in 1897, inspired by Prat de la Riba, he wrote a manifesto of the Greek cause in the name of the institutions of Catalan civil life. He was recognised as honorary Greek consul at Barcelona for eight years and received the Greek decoration of "Knight of the Order of the Saviour"). He was made an honorary member of the

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. As well, he was a member of the

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, a correspondent of the Academia de la Historia de Madrid and the Academia Española (1930). He also served as president of the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. Among his students

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is particularly notable. Among his famous teachings were that Catalan did not exist as an independent language prior to 1326. Rubió y Lluch edited documents for ''Historia de la cultura Catalana Mitgeval'' or ''Documentos para la historia de la cultura catalana medieval'' (1908). He also edited ''Curial y Guelfa: Novela catalana del quinzen segle'' for the Reial Academia and translated ''Novelas griegas por Demetrio Bikelas, Jorge Drosinis, Argyros Eftaliotis et al.'' (Barcelona: Durán y Ca., 1893), a collection of

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Chronological list of works

*''Estudio crítico-bibliográfico sobre Anacreonte y la colección anacreóntica, y su influencia en la literatura Antigua y moderna: tesis doctoral leída el 9 de Noviembre de 1878 en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Madrid'' (Barcelona: Viuda é Hijos de J. Subirana, 1879) *''El sentimiento del honor en el teatro de Calderón: monografía premiada por la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona'' with a prologue by Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (Barcelona: Viuda é Hijos de J. Subirana, 1882) *''La espedición y dominación de los catalanes en Oriente juzgadas por los griegos: monografía leída... Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona en los días 12 y 26 de febrero y 12 de marzo de 1883'' (Barcelona: Jaime Jepús Roviralta, 1883) *''Los navarros en Grecia y el ducado catalán de Atenas en la época de su invasión. Monografía leída en la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona'' (Barcelona: Jaime Jepús Roviralta, 1886) *''Don Guillermo Ramón de Moncada: bosquejo histórico'' (Barcelona: Sucesores de N. Ramírez y Cª, 1886) *''El renacimiento clásico en la literatura catalana: discurso leído en su solemne recepción en la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona, el día 17 de Junio de 1889'' (Barcelona: Jaime Jepús Roviralta, 1889) *''Narraciones populares catalanas recogidas por Sebastián Farnés; traducidas libremente por A.R. LL.'' (Barcelona: Durán y Cª, 1893) *''Sumario de la Historia de la Literatura Española'' (Barcelona: Casa Provincial de Caridad, 1901) *''Discurso inaugural leído en la solemne apertura del curso académico de 1901 á 1902 ante el Claustro de la Universidad de Barcelona'' (Barcelona: Montserrat, 1901) *(ed.) '' Curial y Güelfa'' (1901) *''Discurso en conmemoración del Tercer Centenario de la publicación del "Quijote" : que para la solemne sesión que celebró la Universidad de Barcelona el 9 de Mayo de 1905 escribió... el Dr. D. Antonio Rubió y Lluch'' (Barcelona: La Académica de Serra Hermanos y Russell, 1905) *''Catalunya a Grecia Estudis historics i literaris'' (Barcelona: Biblioteca Popular de L'Avenç, 1906) *''La Acrópolis de Atenas en la época catalana'' (Barcelona: Barcelonesa, 1908) *''Discurso en elogio del Dr. D. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo por Antonio Rubió y Lluch leído en la solemne sesión pública que la Universidad de Barcelona dedicó a honrar la memoria de aquel... el día 18 de Mayo de 1913'' (Barcelona: Tipografía Hijos de Domingo Casanovas, 1913) *''Manuel Milà i Fontanals: Notes biogràfiques i crítiques'' (Barcelona: Durán, 1918) *''Documents per la Historia de la cultura catalana mig-eval, 2 vol, Antoni Rubio y Lluch éd., Barcelone, Institut d’Estudis catalans (1921) *''Estudios Hispano-Americanos: Colección de artículos publicados desde 1889 a 1922'' (Bilbao: Eléxpuru Hermanos, 1923) *''Los catalanes en Grecia: últimos años de su dominación, cuadros históricos'' (Madrid: Voluntad, 1927) *''Discursos leídos ante la Real Academia Española en la recepción pública de Antonio Rubió y Lluch el día 23 de marzo de 1930'' (Barcelona: Ángel Ortega, 1930) *''Juan Cortada, Pedro F. Monclau, Balmes, Fernando Patxot, José de Manjarrés. Cuadros biográficos'' with Julián Vidal de Valenciano y Bastinos

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rubio i Lluch, Antoni 1856 births 1937 deaths Writers from Catalonia Spanish male writers 20th-century Spanish historians Spanish philologists Spanish medievalists Hellenists University of Barcelona alumni Academic staff of the University of Oviedo Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies 19th-century Spanish historians