Josep Vives i Terradas (1870-1940), rationalist teacher and editor

Authors

  • Antoni Dalmau i Ribalta Societat Catalana d’Estudis Històrics (Espanya)

Keywords:

Josep Vives Terradas, Modern School, anarchism, rationalism, workerism, Catalonia, turn of the 19th-20th century.

Abstract

This article recues from oblivion and ignorance the figure of Josep Vives i Terradas, a longstanding rationalist teacher who led quite an eventful life and who was part of that numerous generation of Catalan pedagogues who placed themselves at the service of the renewal of the school of their time, sheltered from the libertarian and free thinking ideas that unfolded in the last decades of the 19th century. Swayed by the
vicissitudes of his life, Vives, who was one of the victims of the Montjuïc trial (1897), alternated this profession with his original trade of carpenter and active work as editor. Finally, in the latter years of his life, he placed himself at the service of Republican municipal politics in Tarragona, his adoptive city. The article remakes a biographical history that is poorly known and explained to date and which in part draws from the testimony of some of his pupils who kept an extraordinary memory of him.

Key words: Josep Vives Terradas, Modern School, anarchism, rationalism, workerism, Catalonia, turn of the 19th-20th century.

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