Francisco Javier de Burgos

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Javier de Burgos

Francisco Javier de Burgos (born October 22, 1778 in Motril , † January 22, 1848 in Madrid ) was a Spanish administrator, politician and writer.

Life

Under the rule of Joseph Bonaparte he was sub-prefect of Almería , after the fall of the French occupation, he fled to France, where he translated Lucretius , Virgil and Horace (1820-24, 4 vols.) And published older Spanish works.

Returning to Spain in 1817, he edited the magazine Miscelanea de comercio, artes y literatura from 1819 , to which he added a political section in 1820, and later the Imparcial . In 1827 he became director of the Customs Council, then Oberfinanzrat and member of the Academy of Sciences. His comedy Las tres iguales rejuvenated the classic Spanish comedy , as did the pieces El baile de Máscara and El optimista y el pesimista .

On October 21, 1833, he was appointed Minister of the Interior by Queen Maria Christina of Naples and Sicily . Just one month later, he implemented a long-postulated and discussed territorial reform in Spain: The country was divided into 15 regions with a total of 49 provinces - a division that, apart from a few changes, still exists today. He was subsequently also appointed Minister of Finance. On April 17, 1836, he resigned from his posts because he was accused of being a reactionary and afrancesado and was exposed to violent political attacks. After Miguel Ricardo de Álava was accused of embezzlement in a Spanish state finance affair ("Guebhardsche Anleihesache"), he was excluded from any political activity. Although the commissioned investigative commission acquitted him on January 2, 1837, de Burgos did not return to Spain until 1839, where he has since lived in seclusion in Granada .

He died in Madrid in 1848 at the age of 69. The six-volume history of the government of Isabella II , which he began, was finished by his son Augusto de Burgos .

Catalog raisonné

  • Biografía universal (3 parts, 1823)
  • Los tres iguales (1827)
  • El baile de máscaras (1832)
  • Oda a la razón
  • El porvenir
  • La primavera
  • Historia del reinado de Isabel II (6 volumes, 1850–51)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Burgos, Francisco Javier de . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 3, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, pp.  629–630 .
  2. ↑ Noticia biografica del Excmo. Sr. D. Javier de Burgos. Madrid 1850, p. 46 . (Spanish, accessed May 19, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Burgos, Francisco Javier de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish administrator, politician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Motril
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1848
Place of death Madrid