Antonio de Capmany y Montpalau

Antonio de Capmany.

Libro del Consulad, 1791.

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

Life

Campany was born at Barcelona, and studied logic and humanities at the Jesuit-run College of Bishops in Barcelona. He entered the army and took part in the 1762 Spanish campaign in Portugal.^{[citation needed]} He retired from the army in 1770, and was subsequently elected secretary of the Royal Academy of History in Madrid.^[1]

He was elected deputy for the Principality of Catalonia in the Cortes of Cádiz, one of 51 deputies of Catalonia in that Constituent Assembly.^{[citation needed]}

Capmany died in Cadis on 14 November 1813. His monograph on the history of his birthplace still preserves much of its original value.^[1]

A portrait of Antonio de Capmany, by Modesto Texidor, can be found in the Consulate Room at the Llotja School in Barcelona.^[2]

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)^[1]

Notes

1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Capmany y Montpalau, Antonio de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 285.
2. "Multinacionales en la Llotja", "La Vanguardia", 8 June 2008.

Sources

• Martínez Hidalgo, José M. (1984). El Museo Marítimo de Barcelona. Barcelona, Editorial H.M.B., SA. ISBN 84-86054-17-6.
• Tomo 4 (2004). La Gran Enciclopèdia en català. Barcelona, Edicions 62. ISBN 84-297-5432-6