The thinker Salvador de Brocà, Doctor of Philosophy, will enter as academician at the Royal Academy of Doctors (RAD) during a solemn ceremony held on Tuesday, January 12, in the auditorium of Foment del Treball Nacional (Via Laietana, 36, main floor, Barcelona). Brocà will read the inaugural address “Reflections on the Baroque“, the result of years of research and teaching. Will respond on behalf of the RAD his academician Josep Gil.

Born in Barcelona in 1939, the new academician is a member of the Catalan Society of Philosophy and the Royal Academy of Bones Lletres. He has taught at the University Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona and the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of Tarraconense Archbishopric and is author of a dozen reference books on philosophy and history of thought.