Miquel Costa i Llobera

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Miquel Costa i Llobera

Miquel Costa i Llobera (born March 10, 1854 in Pollença , † October 16, 1922 in Palma ) was a Spanish writer and pastor of the Catalan language.

Life

He was born into a well-to-do family that owned, among other things, the Formentor estate . His high school he put on in Palma located school Instituto de Palma from. One of his teachers was Josep Pons i Gallarza .

This was followed by a law degree in Barcelona . Here he sought contact with pioneers of the Catalan Renaixença , including Marià Aguiló i Rubió i Lluch . His studies also took him to Madrid , a trip to Paris .

During this time he turned to poetry and wrote romantic works in which he made landscape and nature a central aspect of poetry. He also dealt with literature classics such as Horace and Virgil .

He felt a religious calling and studied from 1885 to 1890 at the Gregorian University in Rome . There he was ordained a priest and received his doctorate as a theologian . He also wrote poetry in Rome, this time in Spanish and not in Catalan.

In 1894 and 1895 he was a member of a weekly literary circle in Palma de Mallorca led by Josep M. Quadrado . After his death, he attended a circle at Joan Alcover's house . He also performed his own works here. In 1900/1901 he wrote the great poem La deixa del geni grec whose plot refers to the Talayotic settlement of Ses Païsses .

In 1904 he gave the speech La forma poètica (German: The poetic form ) at the Ateneu in Barcelona . On the occasion of the inauguration of works restored by Antoni Gaudí in the Cathedral of Palma . As chairman, he headed the Jocs Florals (German: flower games) of Mallorca, and two years later in Barcelona the literary competition of the same name.

In 1907 he made a pilgrimage to Palestine . He processed the impressions of the trip in his work Visions de Palestina . In 1909 he was appointed papal canon of the cathedral of Mallorca.

In 1918 the Acadèmia de la Llengua Catalana commissioned him to write an obituary for the poet Ramon Picó i Campamar , who was also from Pollença .

His father died in 1919. The Formentor estate was divided among the heirs and later sold. Miquel Costa ceded the house on Calle de Moliners and moved to the Calle del Estudi General building near the cathedral.

In 1922 he died during an eulogy by Santa Teresa on the pulpit of the monastery church of the Theresa Sisters in the Rambla de Palma. His burial took place in the parish church of Pollença .

Honors

In 1902 he was appointed Mestre en Gai Saber (German: Master in the Art of Poetry). He was publicly honored in Palma de Mallorca. The honor was carried out by Mateu Obrador .

In Pollença, the street Calle Costa i Llobera was named after him. On the 50th anniversary of his death, a four-meter-high sculpture by Remigia Caubet was set up in Palma de Mallorca in 1972, depicting a figure from his book Tradicions i fantasies .

Works (selection)

  • El Pi de Formentor , volume of poetry, 1875
  • Oda a Horaci , 1885
  • De l'agre de la terra , poems, 1897
  • Líricas , volume of poetry, 1899
  • Tradicions i fantasies , poems, 1903
  • Horacianes , Book on Classical Aesthetics and Metrics, 1906
  • Poesies , volume of poetry, 1907
  • Visions de Palestina , 1908

literature

  • Axel Thorer: Mallorca - Lexicon of island secrets , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-455-50006-6 , page 58.

Web links

Commons : Miquel Costa i Llobera  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. El Catalán, lengua de Europa . Generalitat de Catalunya - Departament de Cultura / Govern de les Illes Balears - Conselleria d'Educació i Cultura, Barcelona 2001, ISBN 84-393-5553-X , p. 12 .