Manuel Milà i Fontanals, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Manuel Milà i Fontanals

Spanish academic

Date of Birth: 04-May-1818

Place of Birth: Vilafranca del Penedès, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 16-Jul-1884

Profession: writer, romanist, literary critic, Catedrático, philologist, literary historian

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Manuel Milà i Fontanals (Catalan pronunciation: [m?nu'?l mi'la]; May 4, 1818 – July 16, 1884) was a Spanish Catalan scholar.
He was born at Vilafranca del Penedès, near Barcelona, and was educated first in Barcelona, and afterwards at the University of Cervera. In 1845, he became professor of literature at the University of Barcelona, and held this post until his death at Vilafranca del Penedès on the July 16, 1884.
The type of the scholarly recluse, Milà i Fontanals was almost unknown outside the walls of the university until 1859, when he was appointed president of the jocs florals 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.