Frederic Raurell
Frederic Raurell i Ges was a Catalan Capuchin.
Biography
Frederic Raurell I Ges was born in Barcelona in 1930. A doctor in theology and graduated in biblical and Semitic studies. He taught in the schools of the Sarrià Capuchins and he was exegesis and hermeneutics teacher in the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome and in the. He was founder of the Biblical Association of Catalonia, of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament and of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies. He collaborated in the Bible of the Catalan Biblical Foundation and in the Comments to the Office of Readings. He is codirector of the review "Estudios Eclesiásticos", where he published several studies. He was a founder member of the first Editorial Board of Catalan Journal of Theology.Raurell also wrote about Franciscan matters. Latterly he also conducted research about his own family, Sarrià, and the period of the Spanish Civil War.
Raurell died on 21 December 2023, at the age of 93.