Jaume Vicens i Vives
Illustration — Jaume Vicens Vives Jaume Vicens Vives (6 June 1910 in Girona, Catalonia, Spain – 28 June 1960 in Lyon, France) was a Catalan historian, considered one of the most influential Spanish historians of the 20th century.
Also recorded as Jaime Vicens Vives
Jaume Vicens i Vives

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- 1910 · Girona.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- historian · university teacher · writer
- Fields
- history of Catalonia in the Middles Ages
- Education
- University of Barcelona
- Languages
- Catalan · Spanish
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Illustration — Jaume Vicens Vives Jaume Vicens Vives (6 June 1910 in Girona, Catalonia, Spain – 28 June 1960 in Lyon, France) was a Catalan historian, considered one of the most influential Spanish historians of the 20th century.
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Childhood
Jaume Vicens i Vives studied at University of Barcelona. Josep Fontana is recorded as having studied under Jaume Vicens i Vives. The recorded working language is Catalan and Spanish. The field of work recorded is history of Catalonia in the Middles Ages. Employment is recorded with Institut Ramon Muntaner, University of Zaragoza and University of Barcelona. Positions recorded include full professor and member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona.
He was the son of Juan Vicens Comas and Victoria Vives and was born on the Santa Eugènia road, number 5, in Girona. His father had arrived in Girona at the end of the 19th century and worked as a proxy in the factory La Farinera Ensesa. His mother had a dressmaker's shop in the Plaça del Gra. His parents had two sons and a daughter: Juan, born in 1906; Jaume, in 1910 and María del Carmen in 1923. He completed his primary studies at the Salesian school of the Brothers of Christian Doctrine in Girona. From his childhood he already showed a clear scientific vocation, dedicating his best efforts to persevere in his studies. His father died suddenly in 1922 and his mother moved to Barcelona in 1924, where she had more opportunities to support her family by working in her profession. In 1926 his mother remarried and the bad relations between Jaume and his stepfather led him to leave the family home when he was only 16 years old to live in a boarding house, paying for the completion of his secondary studies with a job as an accountant in a department store. His mother died in 1929. According to Eliseo Climent Corberá, his 1954 book Notícia de Catalunya was a direct source and inspiration for Joan Fuster's influential 1962 book Nosaltres, els valencians. That book was to have been originally titled Nosaltres els catalans, but it was renamed under Josep Pla's advice, for fear of Francoist censorship. Fuster's work has the same structure and intention as Vicens' book does. The book was expanded and republished in 1960. Notícia de Catalunya had also a major influence on Jordi Pujol. Vicens was also a friend an influence for Juan Reglá.
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1910
Jaume Vicens i Vives born at Girona.
1960
Jaume Vicens i Vives died at 6th arrondissement of Lyon.
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Girona.
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6th arrondissement of Lyon.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 5228406-2, Institut Universitari d'Història Jaume Vicens i Vives.
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