Enric Prat de la Riba

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Prat de la Riba by Ramon Casas ( MNAC ).

Enric Prat de la Riba i Sarrà (born November 29, 1870 in Castellterçol ; † August 1, 1917 ibid) was the first president of the Mancomunitat de Catalunya (the "Commonwealth of Catalonia ") and one of the leaders of the newly awakened Catalan national feeling at the Turn of the 20th century.

Life

The son of a well-to-do family, Enric Prat de la Riba studied law in Barcelona and Madrid . In 1887 the Center Escolar Catalanista entered, from which the first definition of Catalanism was based. In 1890 he was appointed president of this institution. In 1892 he took part as secretary in the assembly that drafted the Bases de Manresa , an important document in the history of Catalan autonomy.

As president of the Diputació de Barcelona , he founded the Institute for Catalan Studies - the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, in 1907 . He also suggested the establishment of the Mancomunitat de Catalunya , whose first president he was from April 6, 1914 until his death. The Mancomunitat de Catalunya was responsible for the construction of important infrastructure projects and the construction of civil and cultural facilities and institutions, some of which still exist today.

Prat de la Riba held a number of posts within the Unió Catalanista , from which he tried to awaken Catalan consciousness by writing manifestos, among others. a. Missatge al Rei dels Hel·lens in 1897. Other Catalan writings from his hand are the Compendi de la doctrina catalanista , Compendi de la Història de Catalunya and the suggestion for founding the newspaper La Renaixença . The work La nacionalitat catalana from 1906 also comes from him. He died in 1917 and was buried in the Cementiri de Montjuïc .

literature

  • Annette Christina Kaminsky: Investigations into the political use of language in the discourse of the Catalan nationalists from 1894-1917. On the language of Prat de la Ribas as the main political, ideological and theoretical representative of Catalan nationalism from 1900 to 1917 . Diss., University of Leipzig 1993.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Birgit Aschmann : The Catalan problem . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 18, 2017, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Prat de la Riba, Enric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prat de la Riba i Sarrà, Enric (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION President of the Mancomunitat de Catalunya
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Castellterçol
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1917
Place of death Castellterçol