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Prospero de Bofarull y Mascaró (1777, in Reus
Reus () is the capital of Baix Camp, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain. The area has always been an important producer of wines and spirits, and gained continental importance at the time of the Phylloxera plague. Nowadays it is k ...
– 1859) was a Spanish historian and archivist, archivist and director of the General Archive of the Crown of Aragon
The General Archive of the Crown of Aragon (Catalan: ''Arxiu General de la Corona d'Aragó''), originally Royal Archives of Barcelona (Catalan: ''Arxiu Reial de Barcelona''), is an archive containing the background documents of the institutions ...
between 1814 and 1840 and from 1844 to 1849.
Biography
He has followed studies in Law at the universities of Cervera and Huesca. Moderate liberal and a meticulous person. During the time he was the head of the Archives, he reorganized the Archives and gave them value after a long period of time that they had almost been abandoned. In 1836 he published ''Los Condes de Barcelona Vindicados'' ''(The Counts of Barcelona vindicated)'' and ''Cronología y Genealogía de los Reyes de España Considerados Como Soberanos Independientes de Su Marca (Chronology and Genealogy of the Kings of Spain Considered as sovereign independent of their march)'' which opened the door to serious research on the Catalan sovereigns, and provided extensive unknown data, but over the years some scholars think they have shown them to be incomplete, yielding to errors in the chronological context. Some scholars as well, they related to his time the disappearance of the last will of King James I, on file 758, and a few crosses (deleting without destroying) appeared in the ''"Libre del Repartiment del Regne de València"'' of 1238, now in theGeneral Archive of the Crown of Aragon
The General Archive of the Crown of Aragon (Catalan: ''Arxiu General de la Corona d'Aragó''), originally Royal Archives of Barcelona (Catalan: ''Arxiu Reial de Barcelona''), is an archive containing the background documents of the institutions ...
, but this it is not proven to be his action, for it could have happened in previous periods of time.Corral Lafuente, José Luis, '' Aragon Untold Story '', 2010 He died in Barcelona in 1859. His son Manuel de Bofarull y Sartorius (Barcelona, 1816–1892) was also a noted historian and archivist.
See also
*La Cartografía Mallorquina
''La Cartografía Mallorquina'' ('' Majorcan Cartography '') is a book of essays on the Majorcan portolans written by Professor Julio Rey Pastor with the collaboration of Ernesto García Camarero. It is a scholarly essay, a key element in the stu ...
* Memorias históricas (Capmany)
* Història de la Marina Catalana
The History of the Catalan Navy is a book written by Arcadi García Sanz that glosses the Catalan Navy, in trade and war, its exploits and conquests, in a historical compilation that covers from Prehistory to this day. It describes the maritime ba ...
* Mestre Jácome
* Abraham Cresques
Abraham Cresques (, 1325–1387), whose real name was Cresques (son of) Abraham, was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer from Palma, Majorca (then part of the Crown of Aragon). In collaboration with his son, Jehuda Cresques, Cresques is credite ...
* Arte de navegar
* Antonio de Capmany
* Antoni Palau i Dulcet
References
Sources
*Martínez Hidalgo, José M. (1984). ''El Museo Marítimo de Barcelona''. Barcelona, Editorial H.M.B., SA. . *Tomo 4 (2004). ''La Gran Enciclopèdia catalana''. Barcelona, Edicions 62. 1777 births 1859 deaths Writers from Barcelona Spanish archivists 19th-century Spanish historians {{Spain-historian-stub