Alexandre Deulofeu

Alexandre Deulofeu Torres (Armentera, 1903 - Figueres, 1978), politician and philosopher of the history, it wrote on what it called " the Mathematics of the History " , a cyclic theory on the evolution of civilizations.

Biography

Alexandre Deulofeu was born with Armentera (Gérone, Catalogne, Spain), on September 20th 1903, where his/her father was pharmacist. At the three years age he moves with his family to go to Sant Pere Pescador, and nine years later with Figueres.

He makes his secondary studies at the Institute Ramón Muntaner of Barcelona, his studies of Pharmacy and Chemical Sciences with Madrid, and finishes those with Barcelona. Returned with Figueres, it obtains a pulpit by way of contest and he becomes professor at the institute of Figueres. He begins also a stage of an intense political activity, initially as leader of Juventut Nacionalista Republicana (Republican Nationalist Youth) of the Empordà, and then like city council man for ERC.

During the Civil war he exerts as improvised mayor with Figueres, where it avoids confrontations, plunderings and persecutions. He is mobilized with the face as officer of health. He exiles himself in France on February 5th 1939, with the republican retirement. During its exile, it makes several trades: professor of various matters, violonist and saxophonist in various groups of music of traditional varieties and, experimental, creative farmer of plantations without ground with liquid solutions that he invents, factory worker, mason, writer, poet, etc He binds friendship with Francesc Pujols and El Salvador Dalí. He returns of his exile on January 22nd 1947, and he devotes himself to pharmacy, to follow his research and to write.

He dies in Figueres on December 27th 1978, without to have supplemented the wide version of his philosopher's stone, carrying the title of the Mathematics of the History .

Thought

He said that civilizations and the empires follow cycles equivalent to the natural cycles of the living beings. Each civilization can achieve a minimum of three 1700 years cycles each one. Included/understood in civilizations, the empires have one 550 years intermediate duration.

He said that, thanks to the knowledge of the cycles of nature, one could avoid the wars, that he considered superfluous, following peaceful processes and not violent one. He also affirmed that humanity, knowing the cycles, could be able to deteriorate them. Humanity was to tend to organize in the form of a Universal Confederation free people.

The statement of the mathematical law which, according to him, determines the evolution of the people, is summarized in the following points (Chapter III of the Mathematics of the History as a Catalan, edition 1967):

All the people pass by times of great demographic fractionation, alternate with times of great unification or times imperialists.
the times of great fractionation last six century and half. The times of great unification last ten century and half. The evolutionary cycle thus covers seventeen centuries.
During this evolutionary lawsuit, the people pass by phases perfectly established to turn over, at the end of the cycle, the same position as at the beginning.
the evolutionary cycle includes/understands all the fields of the human activity, i.e., in addition to one political cycle, one must also consider a social cycle, artistic, philosophical, scientific,…
All the people follow the same evolution, but this one advances or takes delay according to the geographical position of each country.
the creative power is not the same one among all people. In each cycle there is a zone of maximum creative intensity, and this zone moves of a cycle to the following in the same direction of the general process. In Europe, this one advances the East towards the Occident of the the Mediterranean, and passes then from the Iberian peninsula to the Gaulle, it follows to the British Isles, continuous by the Germanic people and arrives to the Scandinavian and Slavic people finally.
the cores imperialists, which give place to the times of great political unification, follow perfect, identical biological lawsuits between them, and with one duration from five to six centuries.
the transformation of the social political regimes does not follow a line constant ascending or downward, but by means of advances and regressions in turn the ones more intense than the others, which gives like consequence a broken line. The result of this line returns to an advance in a given direction. It is what is called the " Law of the two steps ahead and one behind ".

Its thought is in connection with the ideas of Oswald Spengler and Arnold J. Toynbee, which also stated theories on the cyclic character of civilizations, but without reaching the more exact mathematical measurement suggested by Deulofeu.

During its exile, and also later, Deulofeu visited different museums, temples and monuments of several country where, inter alia conclusions, it deduced that he had found the origin of the Romanesque art at the 9th century between the Empordà and the Roussillon, which was the origin of what he calls the second cycle of Western European civilization, after the first cycle.

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