biography
pronunciation:
[lohpeth sohlair]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1806–36)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Barcelona, NE Spain. After studying law at Cervera he worked as a journalist on the Revista Española of Madrid (1832), on El Vapor of Barcelona (1833), and in 1836 was appointed editor of El Español (Madrid). In 1823–4 he contributed with Bonaventura Carles Aribau, the Italian Monteggia, and others to El Europeo, a weekly magazine advocating Romanticism. In 1828 he began a translation of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1819) for a projected selected works to be produced in Spanish by a new publishing firm founded by Sanponts and Aribau, but the censor intervened and the work was never finished since Scott remained forbidden until 1829. López Soler then published other works in a similar style under the pseudonym Gregorio Pérez de Miranda. La catedral de Sevilla (1834) is an imitation of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris. His Memorias del príncipe de Wolfer (1839) appeared posthumously. |
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