Bartolomé Pou Explained

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

Life

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

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.

Notes and References

1. https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/20921/bartolome-pou-y-puigservet Royal Academy of History website, Electronic Biographical Dictionary section, Bartolomé Pou and Puigservet
2. https://www.larramendi.es/poligrafos_y_autores/en/consulta_aut/registro.do?control=FILA20170131816 Ignacio Larramendi Foundation website, Pou, Bartholomew, 1727-1802
3. https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/los-nueve-libros-de-la-historia-de-herodoto-de-halicarnaso-traducida-del-griego-al-castellano-por-bartolome-pou-1149800/ University of Alicante website, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes