What is Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos?
{{Infobox person | name = Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos | image = Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos.jpg | birth_name = | birth_date = 5 January 1744 | death_date = 27 November 1811 | occupation = [[Writer]], [[philosopher]] }} '''Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos''' (5 January, 1744 {{ndash}} 27 November, 1811) was a Spanish [[Spanish Enlightenment literature|neoclassical]] [[Politician|statesman]], [[writer]], and [[Philosophy|philosopher]]. == Banishment == Involved in the disgrace of his friend, [[François Cabarrus|Francisco de Cabarrús]], Jovellanos spent the years 1790 to 1797 in a sort of prison at [[Gijón]] where he wrote. == Reintroduction == In 1797 he came back and refused the post of ambassador to [[Russia]], but accepted to become minister of grace and justice. [[Joseph Bonaparte]], on mounting the Spanish throne, made Jovellanos lots of offers but he refused them all and joined a [[patriot]]ic party. When he was involved in the fall of the party he was sent back to Gijon. The vessel in which he sailed was compelled by stress of weather to put in at Vega de Navia (now Puerto de Vega) in Asturias where died on November 27 1811. {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Jovellanos, Gasper Melchor de}} [[Category:1744 births]] [[Category:1811 deaths]] [[Category:18th-century philosophers]] [[Category:19th-century philosophers]] [[Category:Spanish politicians]] [[Category:Spanish writers]] [[Category:Spanish philosophers]]