Fidel Fita
Fidel Fita Colomé or, in Catalan, Fidel Fita i Colomer (31 December 1835, Arenys de Mar - 13 January 1918, Madrid) was a Spanish-Catalonian archaeologist, philologist, and historian. Biography Born to a newly bourgeois family, at the age of ten he was sent to study grammar in Barcelona. In 1850, at the age of fifteen, he became a Jesuit. After studying at several of the order's other institutions, including one in Nivelles, Belgium, where he studied rhetoric, he went to Loyola in 1853, to become a Professor of the humanities and Greek. During the Revolution of 1854, he went into exile in France, returning in 1857 to take up a post as Professor of Latin and French at the Colegio de Carrión de los Condes in Palencia. From 1860 to 1866, he lived in León, where he taught theology and began his investigations into archaeology, history, and epigraphy. This led to his being named Vice-President of the "Comisión de Monumentos de León", in which position he met the architect, Eduardo Saavedra, with whom he would maintain a lifelong personal and professional friendship. During those years, he made a special effort to identify signs of Roman presence in the area. In