Antonio de Capmany

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Libro del Consulad , 1791

Antonio de Capmany (born November 24, 1742 in Barcelona , † November 14, 1813 in Cádiz ) was a Catalan- Spanish politician , historian , Romance scholar , Hispanist , Catalanist and lexicographer .

life and work

Antonio de Capmany y Montpalau studied in Barcelona and was a dragoon officer until 1770. Then he retired into civilian life and devoted himself to intellectual activity as a scholar and politician.

Capmany was a member of the Real Academia de la Historia from 1776 and its permanent secretary from 1790. He belonged to the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona .

From 1810 he was a Catalan member of the Cortes of Cádiz .

In Barcelona and Mataró streets are named after him.

Works

Romance Studies

  • Arte de traducir el idioma francés al castellano con vocabulario lógico y figurado de la frase comparada de ambas lenguas , Madrid 1776 (bilingual phraseology)
    • ed. by Antonio Alcalá Galiano and Vicente Salvá, Paris 1835, Barcelona 1839
    • ed. by María del Carmen Fernández Díaz, Santiago de Compostela 1987
  • Filosofia de la eloquencia , Madrid 1776, Gerona 1822; ed. by Joaquín Gil, Buenos Aires 1942; Tratado de la elocuencia , Madrid 2001 (English: Philosophy of eloquence , Dublin 1903)
  • Discursos analíticos sobre la formación y perfección de las lenguas y sobre la castellana en particular , Madrid 1776 (lost)
  • Teatro histórico-crítico de la eloquencia española , 5 vols., Madrid 1786–1794, Barcelona 1848
    • Observaciones críticas sobre la excelencia de la lengua castellana , ed. by Carlos Cabrera Morales, Salamanca 1991 (Capmany's text was originally part of the introduction to the Teatro histórico-crítico, vol. 1, 1786; it can also be found in the new edition by Gregorio Garcés, Fundamento del vigor y elegancia de la lengua castellana (Madrid 1791 ) by Francisco Merino Ballesteros, Madrid 1852, 1920, 1945; the explanations by Cabrera Morales are fundamental to Capmany's understanding of language)
    • Tesoro de los prosadores españoles desde la formación del romance castellano hasta fines del siglo XVIII , ed. by Eugenio de Ochoa , Paris 1841, 1899 (selection)
  • Comentario con glosas criticas y joco-serias sobre la nueva traducción castellana de las Aventuras de Telemaco , Madrid 1798
  • Nuevo diccionario francés-español , Madrid 1805, 1817 (24 + 794 + 54 pages)
  • Centinela contra franceses , Madrid 1808; ed. by Françoise Etienvre, London 1988; ed. by Jesús Laínz, Madrid 2008 (Portuguese: Sentinella contra Francezes , Lisbon 1808; English: The anti-Gallican sentinel , New York 1809, Philadelphia 1810)
  • Origen, historico y etimologico de las calles de Madrid , Madrid 1863, Bilbao 1986

History (selection)

  • Memorias históricas sobre la marina, comercio y artes de la antigua ciudad de Barcelona , 4 vols., Madrid 1779–92; 3 vol., Barcelona 1961–1963, 2001 (important for the Catalan national consciousness and for economic history in general)
  • (Translator) Código de las costumbres marítimas de Barcelona hasta aqui vulgarmente llamado Libro del Consulado , Madrid 1791 (therein pp. 335–363 a dictionary of difficult words in Catalan)
  • Cuestiones críticas sobre varios puntos de historia económica, política y militar , Madrid 1807, Barcelona 1988

literature

  • Homenaje a Capmany en el II centenario de su nacimiento (1742-1942) , Barcelona 1945
  • Robert A. Verdonk , 312. La lexicographie bilingue espagnol-français, français-espagnol, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Third volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1991, pp. 2976-2987
  • Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula , Westport 1993 sv (pp. 305-307)
  • Francisco José Fernández de La Cigoña and Estanislao Cantero Nuñez, Antonio de Capmany (1742-1813). Pensamiento. Obra histórica, política y jurídica , Madrid 1993
  • Françoise Étienvre, Rhétorique et patrie dans l'Espagne des Lumières. L'oeuvre linguistique d'Antonio de Capmany 1742-1813 , Paris 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Capmany, Antonio de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Capmany y Montpalau, Antonio de; Capmany de Montpalau i de Surís, Antoni de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan-Spanish politician, historian, Romanist, Hispanist, Catalanist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1813
Place of death Cadiz