biography
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Macabich Llobet, Isidoro
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pronunciation:
[makabeech lyohbet
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1973)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Ibiza, Spain. He studied at the Seminarios of Ibiza and Figueras and was ordained a priest in 1907. He actively engaged in cultural activities of a social nature as a member of the Asociación Diocesana de la Buena Prensa (1907), Centro de Acción social (1909), and the Congregación de la Purísima y de San Luis Gonzaga (1911). The culmination of his advancement in the church was his appointment as private prelate to the pope in 1960. He was a member of the Real Academia de la Historia from 1946 and of the Real Academia Española from 1953. Interested in literature and the literature of manners, from 1901 he became known as a poet, and began as a journalist under the pseudonym J Nicolás. His columns ‘Del día’ and ‘De la tierra’ in the Diario de Ibiza, in which he often dealt with popular cultural subjects, were very successful. His first treatment of a historical subject, Corsarios ibicencos (apuntes históricos), appeared in 1903. From 1908 he wrote articles on folkloric themes, and in 1918 published his first book Mots de bona cristiandat. The first three volumes of his Historia de Ibiza contain his historical works and form the major part of his intellectual output, while the fourth volume includes his main writings on national customs and various other studies. |
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