Bartolomé Pou (1727–1802) was a Spanish priest, writer and translator.

Life

edit

He was born on June 21, 1727 in Algaida, Majorca, and was educated by Jesuits, taking the novitiate at the age of nineteen.[1] After teaching grammar for several years he was ordained as a priest in 1755.

After the Jesuits were expelled from Spain in 1767, he lived in Rome for 30 years, returning to Mallorca in 1797.[2]

Works

edit

Bartholomew Pou published several books, some are named, others are with pseudonyms or anonymously declared. Highlights include:

  • Entertainments rhetorical and poetic at the Academy of Cervera, three speeches and a tragedy entitled Hispania captures;
  • the Bilbilitanae Theses, printed in 1763 in Calatayud with the title of philosophiae historiae Institutionum libri duodecim;
  • Life of Venerable Berchmaus;
  • apologetic four books of the Society of Jesus, written in Latin, with the name of Ignacio Philaretos;
  • two books in memory of Laura Bassi, Latin and Greek, philosophy of the Academy of Bologna;
  • the translation of the nine books of the History of Herodotus;[3]
  • Pastors Relief, Castilian, and a Compendium of Logic, two booklets, if not entirely his own, at least were corrected by him.

References

edit
edit