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Joan Agell i Torrents, founder of the Ateneu

Sanaüja, Segarra, Lleida

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Joan Agell i Torrents, founder of the Ateneu

Historical milestone · Sanaüja, Segarra, Lleida

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Born in Sanaüja on 4 January 1809, the chemist Joan Agell i Torrents studied at the Seminary of Barcelona and at the Escoles de la Junta de Comerç. In 1845 he held the first chair of Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, where he was dean of Sciences and rector between 1863 and 1865, a post he left on being appointed director of the School of Engineers of Barcelona. A member since 1833 of the Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona, he designed a telegraph model capable of transmitting more than forty signals per minute. A deputy in the Spanish Cortes and one of the promoters of the Ateneu Barcelonès, of which he was first president in 1860, he died in Barcelona in 1868 after having promoted scientific education and Catalan industrial societies.

1809-1868

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