Juan Andrés

Juan Andrés (1740-1817)

Juan Andrés y Morell (born February 15, 1740 in Planes , Alicante province , † January 12, 1817 in Rome ) was a Spanish Jesuit and enlightener who worked mainly in Italy. He is the main author of the Spanish School of Universalism in the 18th century .

life and work

Juan Andrés entered the Society of Jesus in Valencia in 1754 , studied there and was ordained a priest in 1763. In 1767 the Jesuit order was expelled from Spain, in 1773 it was completely repealed. Andrés, who had temporarily taught at the University of Gandia , lived in Ferrara from 1773 to 1796 as a tutor of a noble family. He worked scientifically and maintained an extensive Europe-wide correspondence with the great minds of his time. Before Napoleon , Andrés fled to Parma , later to Naples , where he worked as the librarian of the Royal Library. After the Jesuits' rehabilitation in 1814, he stayed in Italy. In 1812 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Andrés wrote the first history of world literature in Italian under the title “Origin, Development and Current State of Any Literature” (with a detailed, but not exclusive, consideration of the Romance literatures). It can be considered a forerunner of modern comparative literature .

In 2010 the research association Grupo de Investigación Humanismo-Europa (GIH-E) created the prize "Premio Juan Andrés de Ensayo e Investigación en Ciencias Humanas".

Works (selection)

History of world literature

• Dell'origine, progressi e stato attuale d'ogni letteratura , 7 vols., Parma 1782–1799 (title of the complete work and the first volume)
  • 2-3. Delle belle lettere
    • 2. Della poesia
    • 3. Dell'eloquenza. Della storia. Della grammatica
  • 4-5. Dell'origine, dei progressi, e dello stato attuale delle scienze naturali
    • 4. Delle matematiche. Della fisica
    • 5. Della fisica. Della filosofia
  • 6. Della teologia. Della scienza biblica
  • 7. Della giurisprudenza canonica. Della storia ecclesiastica. Indice generale
• (different edition) 22 vols., Venice 1783–1808
• (Spanish) Origen, progresos y estado actual de toda la literatura , 8 vols., Madrid 1884–1899; (critical edition), edited by Pedro Aullón de Haro. by Jesús García Gabaldón, Santiago Navarro Pastor and Carmen Valcárcel, 6 volumes, Madrid 1997–2002
  • 1. Estudio Preliminar. Historia de toda la Literatura
  • 2. Poesía
  • 3. Elocuencia. Historia. Gramática
  • 4. Ciencias Naturales
  • 5. Ciencias Naturales
  • 6. Ciencias Eclesiásticas. Addenda. Onomastica
• (French) Histoire générale des sciences et de la littérature depuis les temps antérieurs à l'histoire grecque jusqu'à nos jours , transl. and ed. of each. Ortolani, Paris 1805 (only volume 1)

Correspondence

• (Italian) Lettere familiari. Corrispondenza di viaggio dall'Italia del settecento , ed. by Maurizio Fabbri, 3 vols., Rimini 2008–2010
• (Spanish) Cartas familiares (Viaje de Italia) , under the direction of Pedro Aullón de Haro, critically edited. by Idoia Arbillaga and Carmen Valcárcel, 2 vols., Madrid 2004 (correspondence)
• (Spanish and Italian) Epistolario de Juan Andrés y Morell (1740 - 1817) , ed. by Livia Brunori, 2 vols., Valencia 2006 (correspondence)

literature

• Pedro Aullón de Haro and Davide Mombelli, Introduction to the Spanish Universalist School , Leiden, Brill, 2020.
• Pedro Aullón de Haro and Jesús García Gabaldón (ed.), Juan Andrés y la Escuela Universalista Española , Madrid, Ediciones Complutense, 2017.
• Pedro Aullón de Haro, La Escuela Universalista Española del siglo XVIII , Madrid, Sequitur, 2016.
• Carlos Damian Fuentes Fos, Juan Andrés entre España y Europa , Valencia, 2008.
• Pedro Aullón de Haro, Santiago Navarro Pastor and Jesús García Gabaldón (eds.), Juan Andrés y la teoría comparatista , Valencia, 2002.
• Manuel Garrido Palazón, Historia literaria, enciclopedia y ciencia en el literato jesuita Juan Andrés. En torno a "Del origen, progress and estado actual de toda literatura" , Alicante, 1995.
• Adolfo Domínguez Moltó, El abate D. Juan Andrés Morell. Un erudito del siglo XVIII , Alicante, 1978.
• Titus Heydenreich , Petrarch's Confession of Ignorance, in: Petrarca 1304 - 1374. Contributions to work and effect , ed. by Fritz Schalk, Frankfurt am Main 1975, pp. 71–92 (here: p. 91)
• Guido Ettore Mazzeo, The Abate Juan Andrés. Literary historian of the XVIII century , New York, 1965.
• Heinrich Bihler, Spanish poetry of the Middle Ages in the light of the Spanish criticism of the Enlightenment and pre-romanticism , Münster, 1957.
• Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 3, 1961 (Miquel Batllori, “Andres, Giovanni”).

Web links

• Literature by and about Juan Andrés in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. P. Aullón de Haro, La Escuela Universalista Española del siglo XVIII , Madrid, Sequitur, 2016; P. Aullón de Haro - D. Mombelli, Introduction to the Spanish Universalist School , Leiden, Brill, 2020.
2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 26.