Benito Fontcuberta
Integrist Party | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University of Barcelona |
| Occupation | Military commander, pharmacist, professor and journalist. |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Carlist rebels |
| Rank | Lieutenant colonel |
| Battles/wars | Third Carlist War |
Benito Fontcuberta y Pardo (4 January 1843 – 21 November 1904) was a Spanish journalist, pharmacist and professor who served as a
Having led the rebel forces of
Biography
Youth and military actions
Fontcuberta studied Latin, Philosophy and Theology from 1855 to 1867 at Tortosa, and was awarded a baccalaureate with the rank of nemine discrepante. He traveled later to
After the
Leading a minor squad of 200 Aragonese volunteers, Fontcuberta achieved a series of minor-scale victories against liberals at
Commanding 150 foot soldiers and 50 cavalrymen he fought the liberal forces of
As a commander he led the 5th Battalion of
Intellectual activities
Fontcuberta founded and directed the traditionalist newspaper
Using the pen name "Un teólogo de antaño" (a theologian from yesteryear) he published Félix Sardà y Salvany's articles that would be later compiled on the manifesto Liberalism Is a Sin, which had a lasting influence on Spanish politics.[6]
Apart from his journalist career, Fontcuberta worked for 18 years as a mathematics professor at the Seminary of Tortosa and taught various subjects at the San Luis de Gonzaga College for 27 years until his death.
Fontcuberta was also an active member of the Catholic Worker's Circle of Tortosa.[8] He was also a renowned collaborator of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul and would weekly visit the city's jail and hospital to do charitable works.[2]
Death
Fontcuberta died of an apoplexy being 61 years old. El Siglo Futuro dedicated him an obituary stating that the Catholic Church in Spain had lost "not only one of her best soldiers, but also a model for gentlemen, christians and spaniards, one of those the World is lacking nowadays".[6] Many other Carlist and catholic Tortosan newspapers paid homage to him: El Restaurador called him an "enthusiast soldier of Tradition, for whose defense he fought ardently both with his sword and his quill"[9] and the Correo de Tortosa defined him as an "exemplar gentleman and most upright catholic".[10]
He was married to Pilar Fontanet, with whom he had a daughter of her same name.[11] Pilar Fontcuberta would later marry Joaquín Ferrer y Ferrer, jaimist deputy and chief of the Traditionalist Communion of Tortosa, Roquetas and Gandesa.[12]
References
- ^ a b "El día en Tortosa". Diario de Tortosa: 2. 22 November 1904.
- ^ a b c d e f g "D. Benito Font-Cuberta y Pardo". Correo Ibérico: 1. 28 November 1904.
- ^ Ferrer, Melchor. Historia del Tradicionalismo Español (PDF). Vol. XXIII, 1. Sevilla: Editorial Católica Española S. A. p. 233.
- ^ "Excomunión de "El Siglo Futuro" y "Semanario de Tortosa"". El Orden: 2. 15 July 1888.
- ^ "Crónica". El Ebro: 2. 28 April 1902.
- ^ a b Esteve, Juan (24 November 1904). "D. Benito Fontcuberta". El Siglo Futuro: 1.
- ^ "¡Fuera paludismo!". Correo de Tortosa: 4. 6 February 1889.
- ^ "De colaboración: Espurnes de la llar". Heraldo de Tortosa: 1. 7 December 1933.
- ^ "Crónica". El Restaurador: 3. 21 November 1908.
- ^ "Don Ramón Trinchant, presbítero". Correo de Tortosa: 1. 29 February 1924.
- ^ "Esquela de Benito Font-Cuberta Pardo". Correo Ibérico: 1. 22 November 1904.
- ^ Curto, Albert (25 September 2015). "Ferrer i Ferrer, Joaquim". Els diputats de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya.
Bibliography
- Oller, Francisco de Paula (1888). "Don Benito Font-Cuberta". Álbum de personajes carlistas (PDF). Vol. II. Barcelona. pp. 85–91. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
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