Josep Fontana

Josep Fontana studied at University of Barcelona. Training under Jaume Vicens i Vives and Ferran Soldevila i Zubiburu is recorded. The recorded working language is Catalan and Spanish. The field of work recorded is history. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are essay. Pierre Vilar, Antonio Gramsci and Walter Benjamin are recorded as an influence. Employment is recorded with University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University and University of Valencia. Works named in the authority record are La crisi com a triomf del capitalisme and La formació d'una identitat. Distinctions recorded are Saint George's Cross, honorary doctor of the University of Girona, honorary doctor of the Rovira i Virgili University and honorary doctorate of the University of Valladolid.

• Name — Josep Fontana • Birth Name — Josep Fontana i Lázaro • Born — 20 November 1931 • Birthplace — Barcelona, Catalonia • Died — 28 August 2018 • Place of death — Barcelona, Catalonia • Fields — History • Education — Universidat de Barcelona • Awards — Creu de Sant Jordi

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.

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.

The authorities additionally record the heading Josep Fontana i Lázaro. His recorded languages were Catalan and Spanish.

Josep Fontana worked in history. He was employed by University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University, University of Valencia, Autonomous University of Barcelona and University of Lleida.

Works recorded as notable number 2: La crisi com a triomf del capitalisme and La formació d'una identitat. Una història de Catalunya. His recorded genre is essay.

Josep Fontana is recorded as historian, university teacher and writer.