Moisès Broggi
Moisès Broggi i Vallès (born May 18, 1908 in Barcelona ; † December 31, 2012 there ) was a Spanish doctor and pacifist .
life and career
Broggi was born in Barcelona in 1908. His parents were Antoni Broggi and Elisa Vallès. He studied human medicine at the University of Barcelona and specialized in surgery . In 1931, during the Spanish Republic , he graduated.
With the beginning of the Spanish Civil War , Moisès Broggi joined the medical department of the International Brigades .
Shortly before the end of the war, Broggi took a position in the Vallcarca , which later became the general surgical department of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona . With the Francoist victory in 1939, he was relieved of his position and subjected to an opinion test by the regime. Broggi's employment in the public service was prohibited in a stand trial. He then continued his professional career in private clinics in Terrassa and later in Barcelona. Broggi was professionally active until the 1980s.
Moisès Broggi had six children with his wife Angelina, whom he married in 1941.
Political commitment
Both of Broggi's parents were supporters of the national-conservative Catalan party Lliga Regionalista , which sought an autonomous Catalonia within the Spanish state . His brother Santiago, on the other hand, was a committed member of the separatist party Estat Català , which fought militantly for an independent state. Moisès Broggi always saw himself as a " Catalanist " and in later years became more and more a supporter of an independent Catalan state. In 2009, the then centenarian joined the Reagrupament association, which campaigns for the independence and international recognition of Catalonia. In 2011 he ran in the local elections in Barcelona and headed the list of the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) for the Senate in the Spanish parliamentary elections .
In 2012 he supported the founding of the independence movement Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) .
Honors
In 1966 he became a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Medicina de Barcelona (Royal Academy of Medicine of Barcelona), of which he became president in 1980. In 1981 he was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi (St. George's Cross), the highest honor bestowed by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan regional government). In addition to the Medalla d'Or de Barcelona ( Barcelona Gold Medal), he received the Premi Nacional a la Trajectòria Professional i Artística (National Prize for Professional Career) from the Generalitat de Catalunya in July 2008 in recognition of his “extensive and prestigious career as a surgeon and for his ethical and social commitment ”. In 2008, in the year of his 100th birthday, he was also awarded the Medalla d'Or de la Generalitat de Catalunya (gold medal of the Catalan regional government).
literature
- Memòries d'un cirurgià , 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ ara.cat December 31, 2012: "Mor el doctor Moisès Broggi, als 104 anys"
- ^ The Guardian October 21, 2011: "Spanish centenarian Moisès Broggi sets sight on senate"
- ↑ Montserrat Abelló i Moisès Broggi, Premis Nacionals a la Trajectòria Professional i Artística ( Memento of January 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Catalan in the original, German translation from Wikipediautors)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Broggi, Moisès |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Broggi i Vallès, Moisès |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catalan doctor and pacifist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 2012 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |