Francesc Pi i Margall | |
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 Portrait by José Sánchez Pescador | |
| President of the Executive Power | |
| In office 11 June 1873 – 18 July 1873 | |
| Preceded by | Estanislao Figueras |
| Succeeded by | Nicolás Salmerón |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 April 1824 Barcelona, Spain |
| Died | 29 November 1901 (aged 77) Madrid, Spain |
| Political party | Democratic Federal Democratic Republican |
| Spouse | Petra Arsuaga |
| Children | 3, including Francisco and Joaquín |
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Francesc Pi i Margall (Spanish: Francisco Pi y Margall) (29 April 1824 – 29 November 1901) was a Spanish federalist and republican politician and theorist who served as president of the short-lived First Spanish Republic in 1873. He was also a historian, philosopher, romanticist writer, and was also the leader of the Federal Democratic Republican Party and the Democratic Party. Pi was turned into a sort of secular saint in his time.[1][2]
A disciple of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon,[3] his theoretical contributions left a lasting effect on the development of the anarchist movement in Spain.[4]
- ^ González Casanova, José Antonio (29 November 2001). "Pi i Margall, federalista". El País.
- ^ Vilches, Jorge (2001). "Pi y Margall, el hombre sinalagmático". Historia y Política (6). Madrid: UCM; CEPC; UNED: 89. ISSN 1575-0361.
- ^ "The first movement of the Spanish workers was strongly influenced by the ideas of Pi i Margall, leader of the Spanish Federalists and disciple of Proudhon. Pi i Margall was one of the outstanding theorists of his time and had a powerful influence on the development of libertarian ideas in Spain. His political ideas had much in common with those of Richard Price, Joseph Priestly, Thomas Paine, Jefferson, and other representatives of the Anglo-American liberalism of the first period. He wanted to limit the power of the state to a minimum and gradually replace it by a Socialist economic order." "Anarchosyndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker
- ^ "These translations were to have a profound and lasting effect on the development of Spanish anarchism after 1870, but before that time Proudhonian ideas, as interpreted by Pi, already provided much of the inspiration for the federalist movement which sprang up in the early 1860s." George Woodcock. Anarchism: a history of libertarian movements. p. 357