Manuel Milà i Fontanals

Manuel Milà i Fontanals (May 4, 1818 - July 16, 1884), Spanish scholar, born at Villafranca del Panades, near Barcelona, was educated first at Barcelona, and afterwards at the university of Cervera.

In 1845 he became professor of literature at the university of Barcelona, and held this post till his death at Villafranca del Panades on the i6th of July 1884. The type of the scholarly recluse, Milà i Fontanals was almost unknown outside the walls of the university till 1859, when he was appointed president of the juegos florales at Barcelona.

On the publication of his treatise, De Los trovadores en España (1866), his merits became more generally recognized, and his monograph, De la poesía heróico-popular castellana (1873) revealed him to foreign scholars as a master of scientific method.

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• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.