![]() ![]() He spent time in Huesca, where he befriended the local scholar Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, who helped him achieve an important milestone in his intellectual upbringing and become a lifelong patron, friend, and primary publisher of Gracian‘s works. In 1632 he was appointed Chair for Philosophy at the University of Gandia and furtheron dedicated himself to teaching in various Jesuit schools. He was ordained in 1627 and took his final vows in 1635. Baltasar studied Latin and Greek at a Jesuit school, Philosophy in Calatayud, and Theology in Zaragoza. His father was a physician and he spent most of his youth together with his three brothers in the city of Toledo under his uncles’ care, who was a priest. He was baptised in Belmonte de Gracián, a suburb of Calatayud in province Zaragoza, kingdom of Aragon, today Spain. There are few details known of Baltasar Gracián‘s life. 9) Baltasar Gracian – A few Biographical Facts ![]() ![]() Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, Maxim 15 (p. ![]() “If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.” His writings were lauded by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. He is best known as the leading Spanish exponent of conceptism ( conceptismo), a style of dealing with ideas that involves the use of terse and subtle displays of exaggerated wit. On January 8, 1601, Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher Baltasar Gracián y Morales was born. ![]()
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