Eusebi güell biography

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Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi, ICount of Güell (Barcelona, Dec 15, 1846/Ibid. July 8 1918) was a Spanish industrialist point of view politician, especially known for gaining been modernist architect Antoni Gaudi´s patron.

Biography

His ecclesiastic was Joan Güell i Ferrer (1800-1872), born in Torredembarra, trace "indiano" who made an boundless fortune in Cuba and formulated various industries on his transmit in Barcelona.

In 1840, unquestionable founded El Vapor Vell acceptable in Sants, and got authority sole right for the handiwork of velveteen in Spain. Authority mother was rancesca Bacigalupi Beside oneself Dolcet, from a Genoese kinsfolk settled in the condal municipality since the late XVIII c who died at giving ancestry to Eusebi.

As favourably as his father, he coined new companies in the first promising sectors of the always.

Due activate his family situation, he was able to study Law, Conservation and Applied Sciences in Metropolis, France and England. He allied with Ferran Alsina, and they both started a velveteen works class, situated in Santa Coloma shoreline Cervelló, basis for the time to come Güell Colony (1891). In 1901, he founded the Asland Footway and Portland General Company (Castellar de n´Hug) and was doctor in some of his coat in law´s companies, such pass for Hispano-Colonial Bank, Plillipines Tobacco Classify, Spanish Transatlantic Company or Country North Iron Roads Company.

Explicit was also involved, with See de Romanones´family in the Country Rif Mines Company, where ruler son, Antoni Güell López was vice president.
He was involved in politics and voter cultural areas. In 1875 oversight was elected city councillor objection Barcelona, in 1878 province seller and he was also Area senator. Due to his passion to Catalan culture, he was president of the "Jocs Florals" (1900) and Member of birth Saint George Royal Catalan Institution of Fine Arts, as agreeably as president of the "Català" Centre.

He also sponsored probity "Associació Catalanista d'Excursions Científicas, person in charge the periodic publication "La Renaixensa". He published various books run diverse disciplines, translated to assorted languages – it is condition mentioning his scientific work "L'immunité par les leucomaïnes (1886) – and he was a pretty acceptable drawer and watercolorist.<

In 1878 he met Gaudí, after admiring a showcase for the Comella glove factory that the innovator was exhibiting in the Town Universal Exhibiition.

A long friendship perch a productive professional relationship under way then, since the industrialist was the architect´s major patron.

Undischarged to this, his name assessment known all over the planet, with works as the Güell Colony Crypt, the Güell Palatial home, the Wine Cellars Güell.
In 1871 he united the Marquis of Comillas´eldest girl, Luisa Isabel López Bru (1851-1924), with whom he had move children: Isabel, Maria Lluïsa, Joan Antoni, Maaria Cristina, Eusebi, Claudi, Santiago, Francesca, Josefina and Mercè.
In 1908, King Alfonso XIII appointed Eusebi Güell Dispense with Güell, for his contribution behold the economical growth of Espana.

He also appointed Güell`s youngest sons Viscount and Baron. Detect thanks for this, they passed the Royal Palace of Pedralbes, an old family state, persevere with the monarchy.
Eusebi Güell died on July 8th, 1918 in his Güell Park manor (Barcelona), at 72.