Eugenio d'Ors was born in
Barcelona in 1881, to Josep d'Ors, from
Sabadell, and Celia Rovira, from
Manzanillo,
Cuba. His younger brother Josep Enric, born in 1883, was also a writer. Eugenio d'Ors married Maria Pérez Peix in 1906. D'Ors began his work in
modernist literary environments, and his early work—between 19 and 25 years old—can be categorised as
modernista. He studied law at the
University of Barcelona and received his first
PhD degree in
Madrid in 1905. In 1913, he received his second doctorate, this time in philosophy. Beginning in 1906, he collaborated with the newspaper
La Veu de Catalunya and was a member of Catalan
Noucentisme. In 1938, during
Spanish Civil War he was the General Director on Fine Arts in the
Francoist provisional government in
Burgos. A "hard-line fascist," he had both leftist and rightist friends among intellectuals and politicians, and got prisoners from the
Second Spanish Republic released from
Franco-era concentration camps. He was the father of the noted Spanish jurist, historian and political theorist,
Álvaro d'Ors, and the grandfather of
Juan d'Ors. ==Works==