Fidel Fita

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Fidel Fita Colomé or, in Catalan, Fidel Fita i Colomer (31 December 1835,

Biography

Born to a newly

During the Revolution of 1854, he went into exile in France, returning in 1857 to take up a post as Professor of Latin and French at the Colegio de Carrión de los Condes in Palencia. From 1860 to 1866, he lived in León, where he taught theology and began his investigations into archaeology, history, and epigraphy. This led to his being named Vice-President of the "Comisión de Monumentos de León", in which position he met the architect, Eduardo Saavedra, with whom he would maintain a lifelong personal and professional friendship. During those years, he made a special effort to identify signs of Roman presence in the area.

In 1866, his order transferred him back to

He was named an Academician at the Real Academia de la Historia in 1877; settling in Madrid, where he lived for over thirty years. He would eventually publish over 700 articles in the Academia's Bulletin, a third of which deal with epigraphy. Most of the world's experts on that subject were his friends or acquaintances; notably Emil Hübner, who was preparing a supplement to the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Fita was one of his primary informants on the project.

In 1912, following the death of

Sources

• Juan Manuel Abascal Palazón, Fidel Fita (1835-1918): su legado documental en la Real Academia de la Historia,
  ISBN 978-84-89512-20-7 (Google Books
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• José Ferrándiz, Sotanas conocidas. Semblanzas de eclesiásticos españoles contemporáneos bajo cualquier concepto notables. Madrid: Tipografía de la Sociedad de Publicaciones Históricas, 1913.

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• Brief biography @ the Real Academia de la Historia
• Biography by H. Gimeno Pascual and M. J. Albarrán Martínez @ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum II