Eugeni d'Ors

Eugeni d'Ors , from Ramon Casas ( MNAC ).

Eugeni d'Ors i Rovira (born September 28, 1882 in Barcelona , † September 25, 1954 in Vilanova i la Geltrú ) was a writer , journalist , philosopher , essayist and art critic who published in Catalan and Spanish . He published in part under the pseudonyms Xènius , Octavi de Romeu , El Guaita and Un Ingenio de esta Corte .

D'Ors, relief by F. Marés

D'Ors studied law in Barcelona and obtained his law doctorate in 1905 from the University of Madrid with a thesis on the genealogy of imperialism . From 1906 he worked for the magazine La Veu de Catalunya and was involved in the Catalan Noucentisme . He was secretary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans from 1911, obtained a second doctorate ( philosophy ) in Madrid in 1913 and was director of the Instrución Pública de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya from 1917 to 1920 . The Catalan politician Enric Prat de la Riba was his great protector and promoter. After Prat's death, the conservative Catholic d'Ors increasingly distanced himself from the Lliga Regionalista program and was also massively rejected by his former comrades-in-arms (people spoke, figuratively, of a "lintel"). From 1923 he lived in Madrid and became 1927 Member of the Real Academia Española . In 1938, during the Spanish Civil War in which his three sons took part on the Franco side, he was General Director of Fine Arts in the Provisional Government of Burgos . D'Ors became one of the few Spanish intellectuals who sided with the dictatorship of Francisco Franco . He also accepted the art treasures of the Prado that the democratic government had transferred to Switzerland for the regime . In 1953 he received the chair of cultural studies at the University of Madrid

He was the father of the lawyer and political theorist Álvaro d'Ors .

Works

Catalan

La fi d ' Isidre Nonell , 1902 (short story)
Gloses de quaresma , 1911
La ben plantada , 1911
Gualba la de mil veus , 1911
Oceanografia del tedi , 1918
La vall de Josafat , 1918
Gloses de la vaga , 1919

Spanish

Estudios de arte (1932)
Introducción a la vida angélica. Cartas a una soledad , 1939
Novísimo glosario (1946)
El secreto de la filosofía , 1947
La verdadera historia de Lidia de Cadaqués , 1954

Individual evidence

↑ Guillermo Díaz-Plaja called his book about the affair: La defenestración de Xènius . Andorra, Ed. Andorra, 1967.

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personal data
SURNAME	Ors, Eugeni d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ors i Rovira, Eugeni d '(full name); Xènius; Romeu, Octavi de; El Guaita; Un ingenio de esta Corte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish writer, journalist, philosopher, essayist and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH	September 25, 1954
Place of death	Vilanova i la Geltrú

[1] Guillermo Díaz-Plaja called his book about the affair: La defenestración de Xènius . Andorra, Ed. Andorra, 1967.