Josep Fontana Explained

Josep Fontana
Birth Name:Josep Fontana i Lázaro
Birth Date:20 November 1931
Birth Place:Barcelona, Catalonia
Death Place:Barcelona, Catalonia
Fields:History
Alma Mater:Universidat de Barcelona

Josep Fontana i Lázaro (20 November 1931  - 28 August 2018) was a Spanish historian from Catalonia.[1] [2]

Education

Born in Barcelona, he received his master's degree in philosophy and letters (section history) at the University of Barcelona in 1956 and his doctorate in history by the same university in 1970. He was a student of Jaume Vicens i Vives and Ferran Soldevila. Their main currents of investigation are economic history, 19th century Spanish history and the history of property. He was influenced in his thought by E.P. Thompson, Pierre Vilar, Gramsci and Walter Benjamin.[3]

Career

The Jaume Vicens i Vives University Institute of History, the interdisciplinary Ph.D. history institute in the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona was originally directed and founded by Dr. Fontana, in which he continued to teach classes of Introduction to History and 20th-century Spanish history until his death. He taught economic, the interplay between history, law and economics and contemporary history at the University of Barcelona, the University of Valencia and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Dr. Fontana was an active contributor to scholarly history publications after 1970, among them, l'Avenç (1976). The Introduction to History course taught during the first cycle of the humanities track of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra is based on Fontana's book Introduction to the Study of History.

Publications

Notes and References

  1. News: Josep Fontana recibe el Premi Nacional de Cultura de la Generalitat por su trayectoria profesional . . 5 July 2007 . 30 August 2018 . Barcelona . es . https://web.archive.org/web/20080515021310/http://www.lavanguardia.es/premium/publica/publica?COMPID=51369747724&ID_PAGINA=22088&ID_FORMATO=9&turbourl=false . 15 May 2008 . live .
  2. News: Josep Fontana dona 37.000 libros y documentos a la Universidad Pompeu Fabra . . Verónica . Sánchez Orpella . 4 June 2008 . 30 August 2018 . Barcelona . es.
  3. Josep Fontana analizará la Transición Española en una conferencia en Zafra . Hoy . Europa Press . Europa Press (news agency) . 8 April 2008 . 30 August 2018 . es.