Aproximación a la obra educativa de un afrancesadoel coronel Francisco Amorós y Ondeano
ISSN: 1579-3311, 2386-4745
Year of publication: 2002
Issue Title: Instituciones y sociedad en el franquismo
Issue: 1
Pages: 167-182
Type: Article
More publications in: Pasado y memoria: Revista de historia contemporánea
Abstract
Colonel Francisco Amorós (Valencia 1770-Paris 1848) was one of the most fervent Bonapartist sympathisers both in Spain and in France during the Hundred Days. His extensive private library reveals the passion he felt for reading and introduces us to the authors that may have had an influence on the shaping of his educational system and political outlook. One of the founders of the Pestalozziano Royal Military Academy in Madrid (1805-1808) -an institution created as an experiment to regenerate education in Spain, using the intuitive method devised by Pestalozzi- he was forced to seek exile in Paris in 1813 as a political refugee. In France, he belonged to societies related to state education, wrote influential works on education and directed a number of military and civil gymnasiums, for which reason he has come to be regarded as creator of the French method of physical education.