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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Eduardo Benot Rodríguez (26 November 1822 – 27 July 1907) was a Spanish lexicographer, academic, poet, educator and politician advocate of federal republicanism. Follower of Francisco Pi y Margall, he briefly served as Minister of Development during the First Spanish Republic.

Biography

Early life

Born in Cádiz on 26 November 1822, his father had Italian origin.Шаблон:Sfn He was a feeble child during infancy.Шаблон:Sfn He took studies at the Colegio de San Pedro and later the Colegio de San Felipe Neri.Шаблон:Sfn

Already writing as teenager for the newspaper El Defensor del Pueblo, he later wrote for La Alborada, as well he authored 3 theatre pieces.[1]

Working since 1840 for the municipal beneficence office,Шаблон:Sfn he was hired as teacher at San Felipe Neri in 1848 (soon starting to publish grammar books),Шаблон:Sfn and as lecturer on Geodesy and Astronomy at the Naval Observatory in San Fernando (1857).Шаблон:Sfn

Sexenio Democrático

After the 1868 Glorious Revolution, Benot became a member of the Constituent Cortes formed upon the 1869 election in representation of the district of Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz),[2] overcoming Juan Prim at the election,[1] although Prim was elected anyway as he was candidate in another district.

He was one of the supporters of a manifesto promoted by Francisco Pi y Margall on 10 May 1870 which reaffirmed on "pactist" federalism, in response to the so-called "Declaration of the Republican Press" (published on 7 May 1870), which attempted to resignify federalism as a simple administrative decentralization.Шаблон:Sfn He was later elected Senator in representation of the province of Girona in the 1872–1873 period.[3]

Following the proclamation of the First Spanish Republic in February 1873, he earned again a seat at the Congress of Deputies in representation of the district of Algeciras (Cádiz) at the May 1873 election.[4] He was appointed as Minister of Development of the executive power presided by Pi y Margall in June 1873.[5]

His short ministerial tenure, barely 17 days, delivered the creation of the Шаблон:Ill (predecessor to both the National Geographical Institute and the National Statistics Institute), and the draft of the Ley de 24 de julio 1873, sobre el trabajo en los talleres y la instrucción en las escuelas de los niños obreros (published after his exit from government), the so-called "Benot Law" regulating child labour, entailing the first State intervention in labour relations ever in Spain.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The law failed to be effectively enforced, however.Шаблон:Sfn He also forced ayuntamientos to pay for teachers' wage arrears.[6]Шаблон:Sfn He was replaced by Шаблон:Ill at the ministerial portfolio.[5]

He exiled after the 1874 coup of Pavía to Portugal, where he began to edit the bi-weekly La Europa, only to return to Madrid some time later, as Cánovas del Castillo achieved, via a requirement for expulsion to the Portuguese authorities, the forced return to Spain of Benot.Шаблон:Sfn[6]

Later life

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Caricature of Benot by Moya (Madrid Cómico)

Already a correspondent member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 1860,[7] he was later elected as numerary member, taking possession of the Chair Z on 14 April 1889, reading ¿Qué es hablar? a speech replied by Víctor Balaguer.[8] His contributions to Spanish grammar have received diverse and lavish praises, but they tend to agree in pointing out the "modernity" of his approaches, sometimes even considered to be a "direct precursor" of "modern linguistics".Шаблон:Sfn

Benot would return to the Lower House, elected in representation of Madrid at the 1893 election.[9]

He replaced Pi y Margall at the helm of the Federal Democratic Republican Party when the latter died.Шаблон:Sfn He could not however avoid the fracture of the party in May 1905.Шаблон:Sfn Catalanist republicans would reject from then on the insertion within the main stem of the Spanish left-wing.Шаблон:Sfn

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Burial procession of Benot in Madrid

Ill and progressively blind since 1901, he died poor at Calle del Marqués de Villamagna 6, Madrid, on 27 July 1907.Шаблон:Sfn[10] The funeral procession that took place on the next day was attended by Шаблон:Ill, Шаблон:Ill, Azcárate, Salmerón and Labra and by an attendance formed chiefly by republican sympathizers.[11] Benot was buried at the Шаблон:Ill in the Necrópolis del Este, in the same tomb Pi y Margall had been initially buried prior to the transfer of its corpse to a specific mausoleum funded via popular subscription.[11]

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