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Marriage contract between Don Francisco Javier María de Munibe and Doña María Josefa de Areizaga

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:42 +0000

The document contains family information on Xavier María de Munibe, 10th Count of Peñaflorida, Director and founder of the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País. The marriage between the Munibe and Areizaga families united two of the main families in Gipuzkoa that were related to the northern families that were notably connected to the Court throughout the 18th century.

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Political dissertation on the education and instruction of the pupils of the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País

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This document contains a political dissertation on the education that the students of the Royal Seminary of Vergara should receive, probably written by the heads of the enlightened institution. This document must be contextualised in the years prior to the foundation of the aforementioned educational institution (1776). The exact authors are not known. It promotes the educational premises that the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País wished to establish for the education of the descendants of the families responsible for founding the first Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País.

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Correspondence of Luis Proust (Professor of Chemistry at the Seminary of Vergara) addressed to the Count of Peñaflorida

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:42 +0000

The French pharmacist Louis Proust, one of the fathers of modern chemistry, was professor of chemistry at the Royal Seminary of Vergara. This institution, created under the protection of the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País, recruited some of the best minds of the time: François Duboix, Geronimo Mas, Pierre François Chabaneau, Louis Joseph Proust, Fausto de Elhuyar and Anders Nikolaus Thunborg. In this document, the chemistry professor writes to the Director of the institution, the 10th Count of Peñaflorida, about various economic matters.

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Statutes of the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:30 +0000

Document containing the founding statutes of the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del país, the first Economic Society founded in the Hispanic Monarchy in 1765. Under the impetus of Xavier María de Munibe, Count of Peñaflorida, the Bascongada was created with the aim of promoting development, science and culture. The headquarters of the institution were established in the Insausti Palace in Azkoitia, and the list of members included important personalities of the society such as Valentín de Foronda, Pablo de Olavide and Félix María Samaniego.

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