Ramon d'Abadal i de Vinyals (1888–1970) was a Catalan historian, politician, and journalist.

Life

Abadal i de Vinyals was born in

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. He graduated in law at the

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in 1910. He also completed studies in history in both Barcelona and in several French centers. Towards 1909-10 he was affiliated with Joventut Nacionalista, the youth wing of la Lliga Regionalista (the

Regionalist League Regionalist League of Catalonia (, ; 1901–1936) was a right wing political party of Catalonia, Spain. It had a Catalanist, conservative, and monarchic ideology. Notable members of the party were Enric Prat de la Riba, Francesc Cambó, Agustí R ...

). Shortly thereafter his political career began, which included terms as the provincial member of parliament for Vic (1917 and 1921). In the

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, he worked at numerous commissions – including that of the

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(Library of Catalonia) - and he was a vice-president of the Board of Education. He was a promoter of Accio Catalana, which he left when the Republic was founded, returning to la Lliga. He was the director of the newspaper ''La Publicitat'' when it was ‘catalanized’ (1922), and also the effective director of

La Veu de Catalunya ''La Veu de Catalunya'' (Catalonia voice) was a Catalan newspaper founded by Enric Prat de la Riba that was published in Barcelona from 1 January 1899 to 8 January 1937, with two editions daily. It was the press organ for the ideological and p ...

(1933–36). He was also one of the founders of the newspaper ''L'Instant'' (The Instant) (1935). In 1936, he moved to Italy, and in 1939 he returned to Catalonia, dedicating himself to the study of history, with special attention to the period of the Catalan counts and its antecedents. He died in 1970 in

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Work

Aside from his early work in the history of law (in 1913 he co-edited with Ferran Valls i Taberner the Usatges de Barcelona (the

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), notable are some of his main historical works subsequent to 1939: ''L’abat Oliba, bisbe de Vic, i la seva època'' (The Abbot Oliba, bishop of Vic, and his Times (1948); ''Com neix i com creix un gran monestir pirinenc abans de l'any mil: Eixalada-Cuixà'' ( a 1955 book with research on the

Monastery of Saint-André d'Eixalada The Monastery of Saint-André d'Eixalada ( Catalan: ''Sant Andreu d'Eixalada'') was a Benedictine Christian monastery active in the 9th century in the eastern Pyrenees (now the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales). Founded on the banks ...

); ''Els primers comtes catalans'' (The first Catalan Counts (1958); ''Els precedents antics a la historia de Catalunya'' (The ancient foundations of Catalonia’s history, 1967); ''Dels visigots als catalans'' (from the Visigoths to the Catalans, 1969, 1970); and, especially, the many volumes of ''Catalunya carolingia'' (Carolingian Catalonia, 1926–52, 1955, 1971).Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana, 2008

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abadal I De Vinyals, Ramon People from Vic 1888 births 1970 deaths Catalan-language writers University of Barcelona alumni Complutense University of Madrid alumni Spanish medievalists École pratique des hautes études alumni Regionalist League of Catalonia politicians Members of the Real Academia de la Historia Historians from Catalonia Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies