Joan Mercader: l'ofici d'historiador Authors Josep M. Torras i Ribé Abstract Joan Mercader: the office of historian. Joan Mercader i Riba (Igualada, 1917-1989) was one of the best modernist historians of Catalonia. He was assistant professor at the history department of Barcelona University, belonging to the so-called «Vicens School», and a researcher at the Higher Council of Scientific Research in Madrid. He specialised in history of the Catalonia in the 1700s, the «War of the Frenchman» (Peninsular War) and the reign of Joseph Bonaparte. He founded and ran the Centre of County Studies of Igualada. In 1987 he was given the Saint George Cross by the government of Catalonia. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads (Català) Published 2012-02-22 How to Cite Torras i Ribé, J. M. (2012). Joan Mercader: l’ofici d’historiador. Butlletí De La Societat Catalana d’Estudis Històrics, (22), 325–336. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/BSCEH/article/view/73490.001 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue No. 22 (2011) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.