Antonio de Capmany y Montpalau (24 November 1742Cadis, Andalusia, 14 November 1813) was a Spanish polygraph.

Life

Campany was born at

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

, and studied logic and humanities at the

Jesuit , image = Ihs-logo.svg , image_size = 175px , caption = ChristogramOfficial seal of the Jesuits , abbreviation = SJ , nickname = Jesuits , formation = , founders ...

-run College of Bishops in Barcelona. He entered the army and took part in the 1762 Spanish campaign in Portugal. He retired from the army in 1770, and was subsequently elected secretary of the

Royal Academy of History The Real Academia de la Historia (RAH, 'Royal Academy of History') is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the diff ...

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

. He was elected deputy for the

Principality of Catalonia The Principality of Catalonia ( ca, Principat de Catalunya, la, Principatus Cathaloniæ, oc, Principat de Catalonha, es, Principado de Cataluña) was a Middle Ages, medieval and early modern state (polity), state in the northeastern Iberian P ...

in the

Cortes of Cádiz The Cortes of Cádiz was a revival of the traditional ''Cortes Generales, cortes'' (Spanish parliament), which as an institution had not functioned for many years, but it met as a single body, rather than divided into estates as with previous o ...

, one of 51 deputies of Catalonia in that Constituent Assembly. Capmany died in Barcelona on 14 November 1813. His monograph on the history of his birthplace still preserves much of its original value. A portrait of Antonio de Capmany, by Modesto Texidor, can be found in the Consulate Room at the Llotja School in

."Multinacionales en la Llotja"
"La Vanguardia", 8 June 2008.

Family

He married Gertrudis Marqui in Seville in 1769.

Works

His principal works are: *''Memorias históricas sobre la marina, commercio, y artes de la antigua ciudad de Barcelona'' (4 vols 1779–1792) *''Teatro histórico-critico de la elocuencia Española'' (1786) *''Filosofía de la elocuencia'' (1776) *''Cuestiones críticas sobre varios puntos de historia económica, política, y militar'' (1807)

Notes

Sources

*Martínez Hidalgo, José M. (1984). ''El Museo Marítimo de Barcelona''. Barcelona, Editorial H.M.B., SA. . *Tomo 4 (2004). ''La Gran Enciclopèdia en català''. Barcelona, Edicions 62. 1742 births 1813 deaths Writers from Barcelona 19th-century Spanish historians 18th-century Spanish historians {{Spain-bio-stub