Ramon d'Abadal i de Vinyals (1888–1970) was a

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historian, politician and journalist.

Life

Abadal i de Vinyals was born in

Vic Vic (; es, Vic or Pancracio Celdrán (2004). Diccionario de topónimos españoles y sus gentilicios (5ª edición). Madrid: Espasa Calpe. p. 843. ISBN 978-84-670-3054-9. «Vic o Vich (viquense, vigitano, vigatán, ausense, ausetano, ausonense): ...

. He graduated in law at the University of Barcelona in 1910. He also completed studies in history in both Barcelona and in several French centers. Towards 1909-10 he was affiliated with Joventut Nacionalista, the youth wing of la Lliga Regionalista (the

Regionalist League Regionalist League of Catalonia ( ca, Lliga Regionalista de Catalunya, ; 1901–1936) was a right wing political party of Catalonia, Spain. It had a Catalanist, conservative, and monarchic ideology. Notable members of the party were Enric Prat de l ...

). Shortly thereafter his political career began, which included terms as the provincial member of parliament for Vic (1917 and 1921). In the

Commonwealth of Catalonia The Commonwealth of Catalonia ( ca, Mancomunitat de Catalunya, ) was a deliberative assembly made up of the councillors of the four provinces of Catalonia. Promoted in its final stages of gestation by the Regionalist League of Catalonia, it wa ...

, he worked at numerous commissions – including that of the Biblioteca de Catalunya (Library of Catalonia) - and he was a vice-president of the Board of Education. He was a promoter of Accio Catalana, which he left when the Republic was founded, returning to la Lliga. He was the director of the newspaper ''La Publicitat'' when it was ‘catalanized’ (1922), and also the effective director of

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 ...

(1933–36). He was also one of the founders of the newspaper ''L'Instant'' (The Instant) (1935). In 1936, he moved to Italy, and in 1939 he returned to Catalonia, dedicating himself to the study of history, with special attention to the period of the Catalan counts and its antecedents. He died in 1970 in Barcelona.

Work

Aside from his early work in the history of law (in 1913 he co-edited with Ferran Valls i Taberner the Usatges de Barcelona (the

Usages of Barcelona The Usages of Barcelona ( ca, Usatges de Barcelona, {{IPA-ca, uˈzadʒəz ðə βəɾsəˈlonə, IPA; la, Usatici Barchinonae) were the customs that form the basis for the Catalan Constitutions. They are the fundamental laws and basic rights ...

), notable are some of his main historical works subsequent to 1939: ''L’abat Oliba, bisbe de Vic, i la seva època'' (The Abbot Oliba, bishop of Vic, and his Times (1948); ''Els primers comtes catalans'' (The first Catalan Counts (1958); ''Els precedents antics a la historia de Catalunya'' (The ancient foundations of Catalonia’s history, 1967); ''Dels visigots als catalans'' (from the Visigoths to the Catalans, 1969, 1970); and, especially, the many volumes of ''Catalunya carolingia'' (Carolingian Catalonia, 1926–52, 1955, 1971).Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana, 2008

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abadal I De Vinyals, Ramon People from Vic 1888 births 1970 deaths Catalan-language writers University of Barcelona alumni Complutense University of Madrid alumni Spanish medievalists École pratique des hautes études alumni Regionalist League of Catalonia politicians Members of the Real Academia de la Historia Historians from Catalonia Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies