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| | Jaime Luciano Balmes |
 | | Jaime Luciano Balmes (August 28, 1810—July 9, 1848), Spanish ecclesiastic, eminent as a political writer and a philosopher, was born and died at Vich[?] in Catalonia. |
 | | Having attacked the regent Espartero and been exiled he founded and edited on his return the El Pensamiento de la Nación, a Catholic and Conservative weekly; but his fame rests principally on El Protestantismo comparado con el Catolicismo en sus relaciones con la Civilisación Europea (3 vols., 1842—1844, 6th edition, 1879; Eng. |
 | | New York, 1856), and the Curso de Filosofia Elemental (4 vols., 1847), which he translated into Latin for use in seminaries. |
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