Pascual Madoz

Pascual Madoz Ibañez (born with Pampelune the May 17th 1806 and died with Genoa the December 13rd 1870) is a politician and a Spanish writer whose exemplary work is the sum that represents its Gazetteer of Spain published in the middle of the 19th century.

Biography

Born with Pampelune in a poor family, Pascual Madoz Ibañez undertakes studies of right to the University of Saragossa and takes part as of its youth in patriotic political activities violent Anticarliste S which is worth to him imprisonment and search for a refuge in France. Between 1830 and 1832, he devotes himself, in Tours and Paris, with studies of geography and statistics which will determine its later mental activities.

Amnestied, it returns in its country and settles with Barcelona while being strongly invested in this area of Catalogne through journalism. It begins there its monumental work, finally published with Madrid of 1845 to 1850: the Diccionario Geográfico Estadístico-Histórico de España there tired Posesiones de Ultramar .

Progressist but monarchist, he is elected appointed with the the Cortes of which he becomes the president before being appointed Minister for Finance and also during some time, in 1854, governor of Barcelona of which he modernizes the urbanization. Its outstanding political act is the bill concerning the ecclesiastical goods in 1855 presented in spite of the hostility of the catholic party. It will become a little later one of the figures of the opposition and after the Revolution of 1868, he will be governor of Madrid and will take part in the delegation which must propose the crown of Spain to the duke of Aoste, exiled with Florence. He will die suddenly in way with Genoa, on December 15th, 1870.

Its gazetteer and its political action still found its fame: he seems to appear with the eyes of the Spaniards like a kind of equivalent of Michelet for the French and to deserve the title of writer.

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