Juan Bautista Pablo Forner
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Juan Bautista Pablo Forner (17 or 23 February 1756[1] – 7 March 1799), Spanish a satirist and scholar, was born in Mérida (Badajoz Province). He studied at the University of Salamanca and was called to bar in Madrid in 1783.[2]
During the next few years under the pseudonyms of Tome Cecial, Pablo Segarra, Don Antonio Varas, Bartolo, Pablo Ignocausto, El Bachiller Regañadientes, and Silvio Liberio Forner was engaged in a series of polemics with García de la Huerta, Iriarte and other writers; the violence of his attacks was so extreme that he was finally forbidden to publish any controversial pamphlets, and was transferred to a legal post at Seville. In 1796 he became crown prosecutor at Madrid, where he died on 7 March 1799. Forner's brutality is almost unexampled, and his satirical writings give a false impression of his powers. His Oración apologética por la España y su mérito literario (1786) is an excellent example of learned advocacy, far superior to similar efforts made by Carlo Denina and Antonio Cavanilles; and his posthumous Exequias de la lengua castellana (printed in the Biblioteca de autores españoles, vol. LXIII.) testifies to his scholarship and taste.[2]
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- ^ Most sources from Spain give his birthdate as February 17 (not Feb 23 as in the Britanica article). For example, https://web.archive.org/web/20080724075533/http://ab.dip-caceres.org/forner/forner000.htm
- ^ a b public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Forner, Juan Bautista Pablo". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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- 1756 births
- 1799 deaths
- People from Mérida, Spain
- Spanish male writers
- University of Salamanca alumni
- Spanish critics
- Spanish satirists