11 Facts About Benito Fontcuberta

Benito Fontcuberta y Pardo was a Spanish journalist, pharmacist and professor who served as a Carlist commander on the Third Carlist War.

Benito Fontcuberta studied Latin, Philosophy and Theology from 1855 to 1867 at Tortosa, and was awarded a baccalaureate with the rank of nemine discrepante.

Benito Fontcuberta traveled later to Tarragona to study land surveying and Fine Arts.

Benito Fontcuberta defeated general Santa Pau at Morella and played an important role with his men at the victory of the accion de Ares the 25 November 1873.

Benito Fontcuberta founded and directed the traditionalist newspaper Semanario de Tortosa from 1882 to 1888.

Benito Fontcuberta sided with Ramon Nocedal on the Carlist schism, being expulsed from the Traditionalist Communion after expressing his support for an Integrist newspaper at Pamplona.

Benito Fontcuberta kept writing for other newspapers and became a local leader of the Integrist Party.

Apart from his journalist career, Benito Fontcuberta worked for 18 years as a mathematics professor at the Seminary of Tortosa and taught various subjects at the San Luis de Gonzaga College for 27 years until his death.

Benito Fontcuberta was an active member of the Catholic Worker's Circle of Tortosa.

Benito Fontcuberta was a renowned collaborator of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul and would weekly visit the city's jail and hospital to do charitable works.

Benito Fontcuberta was married to Pilar Fontanet, with whom he had a daughter of her same name.