Eugeni d'Ors

Eugeni d'Ors studied at University of Barcelona and Universidad Central. The recorded working language is Catalan and Spanish. Employment is recorded with Universidad Central. Positions recorded include General Director of Fine Arts and director. Work by Eugeni d'Ors is recorded in the collections of Cerdanyola Art Museum. Distinctions recorded are Premios Ondas, Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise and doctor honoris causa from the University of Aix-Marseille.

Eugenio d'Ors was born in Barcelona in 1881, to Josep d'Ors, from Sabadell, and Celia Rovira, from Manzanillo, Cuba. His younger brother Josep Enric, born in 1883, was also a writer. Eugenio d'Ors married Maria Pérez Peix in 1906. D'Ors began his work in modernist literary environments, and his early work—between 19 and 25 years old—can be categorised as modernista. He studied law at the University of Barcelona and received his first PhD degree in Madrid in 1905. In 1913, he received his second doctorate, this time in philosophy. Beginning in 1906, he collaborated with the newspaper La Veu de Catalunya and was a member of Catalan Noucentisme. He was the secretary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in 1911 and director of the Instrucció Pública de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya (Commonwealth of Catalonia) in 1917, but he left in 1920 after Enric Prat de la Riba's death. In 1923 he moved to Madrid where he became a member of the Real Academia Española in 1927. Returning from France, he joined the Falange Española de las JONS in 1937. In 1938, during Spanish Civil War he was the General Director on Fine Arts in the Francoist provisional government in Burgos. A "hard-line fascist," he had both leftist and rightist friends among intellectuals and politicians, and got prisoners from the Second Spanish Republic released from Franco-era concentration camps. He was the father of the noted Spanish jurist, historian and political theorist, Álvaro d'Ors, and the grandfather of Juan d'Ors.

• Illustration — Medallion showing a profile relief of D'Ors, by F. Marés. Detail of the monument dedicated to him in Madrid (1963).

• La fi d'Isidre Nonell, 1902 (narració). • Gloses de quaresma, 1911. • La ben plantada, 1911. • Gualba la de mil veus, 1911. • Oceanografia del tedi, 1918. • La vall de Josafat, 1918. • Gloses de la vaga, 1919.

• Estudios de arte (1932) • Introducción a la vida angélica. Cartas a una soledad, 1939 • Novísimo glosario (1946) • El secreto de la filosofía, 1947 • La verdadera historia de Lidia de Cadaqués, 1954