Adolfo Pons y Umbert, académico y funcionario del Congreso de los Diputados

Abstract

This paper analyzes the intellectual aspect of Adolfo Pons y Umbert (1873-1945), who served as a civil servant at the Spanish Congress and was a relevant member of the Royal Academies of Jurisprudence and Legislation, and Moral and Political Sciences. His professional career is linked to the Congress, and he is also author of a wide bibliography on Parliamentary Law and on the study of some prominent political men of his time, for which he did a complete and thorough use of the Archive of the Spanish Congress, thus becoming one of his best experts.