Antoni Rubió i Lluch

Who was Antoni Rubió i Lluch?

Antoni Rubió i Lluch was a Spanish-Catalan historian and intellectual who published in both Catalan and Spanish. A Hellenist and a medievalist, he left his mark on the study of the Catalan period in Greece, 1313–1381.

Son of the poet Joaquim Rubió i Ors, Rubió i Lluch studied philosophy and literature at the University of Barcelona under Manuel Milà i Fontanals and Francesc Xavier Llorens i Barba and in the company of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, who was a longtime friend and colleague. The two are icons of Catalan positivism. In 1880 he became a tutor in the literature faculty there and in 1885 a full professor of general literature at the University of Oviedo, from which he was transferred to Barcelona. In 1889 he became a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona. In 1904 he taught Catalan literature at the Estudis Universitaris Catalans and in 1906 he was vice-president of the First International Congress of the Catalan Language. The next year he was named both a member and the first president of the Institute for Catalan Studies. He later presided over the Jocs Florals in Barcelona.