He was born in Palm in 1825 was poet and linguist. Son of a family chueta of good economic position, her interest for the Catalan culture woke up from her youth. He went to study loier in Barcelona when the renaissance was fashionable. He was one of the founders of the Renaixença. He was the director of the Provincial Library of Valencia. Later, he directed the Library of Barcelona. Published a great number of classic works of the Catalan literature, being read by multiple readers. From the investigation and of the fieldwork in the territories where Catalan speaks himsel he gathered a great quantity of lexicographical material, which assembled in his her Diccionari Aguiló. Also he wrote a popular Collection of ballads.

He died in 1897.