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Eugenio d'Ors i Rovira (;

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, 28 September 1882 – Vilanova i la Geltrú, 25 September 1954) was a Spanish writer,

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ist,

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, philosopher and art critic. He wrote in both

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and Spanish, sometimes under the

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of ''Xènius'' (). Monumento a Eugenio d'Ors (Madrid) 01

Biography

Born in

in 1882, Eugenio d'Ors initiated himself in the modernist literary environments. He participated in his younger years, between nineteen and twenty-five years, in this aesthetic. He studied law in Barcelona and received his

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degree in

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. He collaborated from 1906 on in ''

La Veu de Catalunya ''La Veu de Catalunya'' (Catalonia voice) was a Catalan newspaper founded by Enric Prat de la Riba that was published in Barcelona from 1 January 1899 to 8 January 1937, with two editions daily. It was the press organ for the ideological and po ...

'' and was a member of Catalan

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. He was the secretary of the

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in 1911 and director of the ''Instrucció Pública de la

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'' (Commonwealth of Catalonia) in 1917, but he left in 1920 after

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's death. In 1923 he moved to

where he became a member of the Real Academia Española in 1927. In 1938, during

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he was the General Director on Fine Arts in the Francoist provisional government in

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. He was the father of the noted Spanish jurist, historian and political theorist, Álvaro d'Ors, and the grandfather of

Juan d'Ors Juan d'Ors was born in Madrid, Spain, December 8, 1957. His grandfather was the philosopher and art critic Eugenio d'Ors. He is the son of Juan Pablo d'Ors Pérez, a humanist doctor, and María Luisa Fuhrer, a philologist. He is a singer, musici ...

Works

In Catalan

*''La fi d'Isidre Nonell'', 1902 (narració) *''Gloses de quaresma'', 1911 *''La ben plantada'', 1911 *''Gualba la de mil veus'', 1911 *''Oceanografia del tedi'', 1918 *''La vall de Josafat'', 1918 *''Gloses de la vaga'', 1919

In Spanish

*''Estudios de arte'' (1932) *''Introducción a la vida angélica. Cartas a una soledad'', 1939 *''Novísimo glosario'' (1946) *''El secreto de la filosofía'', 1947 *''La verdadera historia de Lidia de Cadaqués'', 1954

External links

Eugenio d'Ors (1881-1954)
* In Catalan:
Eugeni d'Ors (Escriptors en Llengua Catalana)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ors, Eugeni D 1881 births 1954 deaths Writers from Barcelona Spanish male writers Falangists Catalan-language writers Journalists from Catalonia Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (National faction) Far-right politics in Catalonia