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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Valls Taberner, Fernando (1888-1942)Alternative forms (other languages)

Fechas de existencia:

1888 - 1942

History:

Spanish jurist, politician, historian and archivist.

Graduated in Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad de Barcelona (1910), he moved to Madrid that same year to do research in the Archivo Histórico Nacional, where he came into contact with the erudite circles of the capital. Granted a scholarship by the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios (1910), he studied at L'Ecole de Chartes and at the Faculty of Law in Paris, also taking the opportunity to research at the National Library of Spain.

Doctor in Law and Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad Central de Madrid in 1912 and 1915 respectively.

He entered the Corps of Specialist Archivists, Librarians and Archaeologists through public examination with destination in the Archivo de Hacienda in Tarragona (August 22, 1913) but resigned in October and remained in a supernumerary situation. He re-entered on January 31, 1914 with destination in the Archive of the Crown of Aragon (ACA), which he left when he obtained the professorship of History of Spain at the Universidad de Murcia (July 17, 1922), where he also had a brief stay (September 21, 1923) and returned to Barcelona as professor of History of Catalonia in the Estudis Universitaris Catalans.

He married Marcelina Arnó Maristany and they were parents of the financier Luis Valls-Taberner Arnó.

In October 1929, he entered as an unpaid assistant in the Archive of the Crown of Aragon and a month later he was appointed director, resigning when he was elected regionalist deputy in the Spanish Parliament (April 4, 1936).

When the Spanish Civil War broke out, the anti-fascist committee of Cardedeu provided him with a safe-conduct (August 7, 1936) to move, along with his family, to Barcelona, from where they all embarked to Genoa, later settling in Rome.

Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Date of the event: 1936 - 1939