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Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
Jovellanos painted by Goya, 1798
Born
Baltasar Melchor Gaspar María

(1744-01-05)5 January 1744
Gijón, Spain
Died27 November 1811(1811-11-27) (aged 67)
Vega de Navia, Spain
Occupations
  • Author
  • philosopher
Seat V of the Real Academia Española
In office
23 September 1783 – 27 November 1811
Preceded byJavier Arias Dávila y Centurión
Succeeded byTomás José González-Carvajal

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (born Gaspar Melchor de Jove y Llanos, 5 January 1744 – 27 November 1811) was a Spanish neoclassical statesman, author, philosopher and a major figure of the Age of Enlightenment in Spain.

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the Spanish writer Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos. The same year it achieved the status of villa (town). Jovellanos is also called "Bemba" by its inhabitants...

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such as the Fonda de San Sebastián, founded by Nicolás Fernández de Moratín and his son Leandro, together with Cadalso and Jovellanos. Two writers were...

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published until 1755. His work was translated into Spanish by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, probably in the late 1770s, and considered essential reading...

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royal decree to the effect on 22 May. A committee presided by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos organized the legal and logistical efforts to carry this out...

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according to Ruiz de la Peña in 1981, a literature comparable to that in Asturias in Castilian). In 1744, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos wrote about the historic...

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during this time, led by poets including Ignacio de Luzán Claramunt and Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who contributed greatly to the neoclassical movement...

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Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca or Tirso de Molina. During the Enlightenment authors included, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, and...

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Spain, one of the leading intellectuals was Minister of Justice Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who in an address to the Royal Academy of History, called on...

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2022. "Biografia de Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos". biografiasyvidas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 1, 2022. "El Ferrocarril de Langreo, 150 años moviendo...

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Land reform in Mexico

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Spain and the lack of productiveness of those landed estates. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos drafted the Informe para una ley Agraria ("A report for an Agrarian...

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Puerto de Vega

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y Vigo Álvaro de Navia Osorio y Vigil, Marqués de Santa Cruz de Marcenado Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, statesman and poet (1744–1811), died here v t...

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Bellver Castle

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political prisoners, the most famous of these being the minister Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1802–1808) who first made a description of the castle and commissioned...

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Essay on the Nature of Trade in General

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Coat of arms of Asturias

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attributed to the Prince and the Principality of Asturias, as proved Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, author, philosopher and main figure of the Age of Enlightenment...

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Charles IV of Spain

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Charles's regime. In an attempt to implement major economic changes, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, a reformist, Jansenist conservative proposed major structural...

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Gregorio Sancianco

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and Jean-Baptiste Say, as well as the Spanish writer-statesman Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, the only economist Sancianco mentions by name. In Progreso,...

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Economic history of Mexico

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the deleterious Act of Consolidation. A Spanish intellectual Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos wrote a critique of the decline of Spain as an economic power...

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Academy of the Asturian Language

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century, when Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and Carlos González de Posada talk in their letters about the idea of creating it in 1791. Jovellanos' project,...

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Pedro de Silva

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Asturians

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Royal Spanish Academy

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