Jordi Bilbeny
Jordi Alsina i Bilbeny (born 14 October 1961) is a Spanish pseudohistorian from Catalonia best known for his theory that Christopher Columbus was a Catalan.
Bilbeny has a degree in Catalan Philology by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and has been a professor of Catalan language classes for adults at the Islamic Cultural Council of Catalonia and at the Women's Penitentiary of Barcelona (Wad-Ras), among other places.[1] He launched the "Symposium on the Catalan discovery of America" in 2001.[2] Bilbeny is a member of the "Arenysian Movement for Self-Determination", a local independentist movement, and of the Arenys de Munt's Popular Unity Candidacy,[3] and was one of the organizers of the 2009 Catalan independence referendum in Arenys de Munt, for which he composed the anthem.[4][5] He is a leading member of the Institut Nova Història, a research organisation which claims that Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and the author of Lazarillo de Tormes were Catalan.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Riera, Ignasi (14 June 2010). "Català a les presons". Avui (in Catalan). Archived from the original on 11 March 2012.
- ^ "Error intencionat? Un simposi d'historiadors a Arenys de Mar debatrà el possible origen català de Colom i per què es va negar". El Punt Avui (in Catalan). 16 November 2010.
- ^ "imenis i Bilbeny analitzen les consultes en una xerrada a Besalú aquest divendres". Llibertat.cat (in Catalan). 3 November 2009. Archived from the original on 4 August 2014.
- ^ "Una discogràfica ripollesa edita l'himne de les consultes independentistes". El Ripollès.info (in Catalan). 22 April 2010. Archived from the original on 24 July 2013.
- ^ "Campanes de Llibertat". e-notícies. 8 September 2009. Archived from the original on 12 September 2009.
- ^ Mas, Andreu (3 November 2009). "Colom era català, barceloní, i d'una nissaga noble" (PDF). El Punt (in Catalan). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
