Antoni Rubió i Lluch

Antoni Rubió i Lluch (Spanish: Antonio Rubió y Lluch; Valladolid 1856 – Barcelona 1937) was a Spanish historian and intellectual, and a Catalan patriot influenced by the Catalan Renaissance.

[1] A Hellenist and a medievalist, he left his mark on the study of the Catalan presence in fourteenth-century Greece.

Son of the poet Joaquim Rubió i Ors, Rubió y Lluch studied philosophy and literature at the University of Barcelona under Manuel Milà i Fontanals and Francesc Xavier Llorens i Barba and in the company of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, who was a longtime friend and colleague.

Politically, Rubió y Lluch defended Greek aspirations for Crete and, in 1897, inspired by Prat de la Riba, he wrote a manifesto of the Greek cause in the name of the institutions of Catalan civil life.

He also edited Curial y Guelfa: Novela catalana del quinzen segle for the Reial Academia and translated Novelas griegas por Demetrio Bikelas, Jorge Drosinis, Argyros Eftaliotis et al. (Barcelona: Durán y Ca., 1893), a collection of Byzantine novels.