Juan Andrés, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Juan Andrés

Spanish priest, writer

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1740

Place of Birth: Planes, Valencian Community, Spain

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1817

Profession: writer, priest, professor, librarian, historian, literary critic, philosopher, literary historian

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Juan Andrés y Morell (15 February 1740 in Planes, Alicante – 12 January 1817 in Rome) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, Christian humanist and literary critic of the Age of Enlightenment.
He was the creator of world history and comparative literature (i.e.
of Letters and Sciences of the eighteenth century) through the most important and extensive of his works: Dell'Origine, progressi e stato d'ogni attuale letteratura (1st ed.
Italian, Parma, 1782–1799) – Origen, progresos y estado actual de toda la literatura (Madrid, 1784–1806, but was incomplete as it did not include the part devoted to the ecclesiastical sciences) only recently restored to a critical and complete edition.