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The birth of Simón de Rojas Clemente

Titaguas, Los Serranos, Valencia

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The birth of Simón de Rojas Clemente

Historical milestone · Titaguas, Los Serranos, Valencia

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Simón de Rojas Cosme Damián Clemente y Rubio was born in Titaguas on 27 September 1777, the fourth son of the notary Joaquín Clemente Collado, in a family of fifteen siblings. He studied at the Seminary of Segorbe and later in Valencia, where he studied philosophy and theology and stood out as a philologist, mastering Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, French, English and Italian in addition to his native Valencian; reading Cavanilles's Observaciones sobre el Reyno de Valencia awakened his botanical vocation. In 1800 he moved to Madrid, where he worked at the Real Jardín Botánico. A traveller through North Africa alongside the spy Domingo Badía, alias Ali Bey, and through Andalusia, he became a pioneer of Spanish botany and ampelography and the author of the first scientific classification of grapevine varieties.

1777

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