Josep Tarruella i Albareda

José Tarruella Albareda (10 November 1870 – 1 January 1958) was a Spanish doctor and sports leader. He presided over several sporting entities, such as the University SC, the Catalan Football Federation (1912–13), the , and the , among others.

Professional career José Tarruella was born on 10 November 1870 in Pallejà, Catalonia, as the son of a director of La Manresana, a factory of explosives integrated into the . As he does not like industrial activity, he instead decided to study medicine at the University of Barcelona where he received his license in 1892. Two years later, in 1894, he obtained his doctorate in Madrid. Years later, he collaborated in the writing of the "Corachan" Medical Dictionary, published in 1936 shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. His work was prolific with nine monographs and more than a hundred articles and communications. After the war, he returned to Barcelona and continued to write in his retirement years. The last one, in Spanish in 1943: Renal ileus, is about intestinal occlusions due to nephritic colic.

Others Tarruella regularly attended different social events. Art and painting. He was even a member of the Amigos de la Instrucción society, the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona, the Liceu Circle, and the .

In 1910, Tarruella was a candidate for the Republican Nationalist Federal Union in the general elections for Barcelona but he did not get the seat despite having 23,293 votes against the 16,292 votes of Francesc Cambó.

Later life Despite this intense social life, Tarruella did not refrain from deepening his knowledge of Medicine nor did he forget his patients. In addition to his frequent participation in scientific sessions and congresses that took place in the country, it was also common for him to travel to other countries. In 1997, in Moscow, he presented a paper on Peudosclerosis of plaques and, in Paris, where he often attended, in 1910, he lectured on Renal Opotherapy.

Tarruella was the general practitioner of many Barcelona families and sometimes he even acted as a family counsellor. The wealthiest, in order not to lose contact with him, accompanied him on his stays at the spas of the time.

During the Civil War, Tarruella went into exile in San Sebastiàn, where he continued to work as a doctor for some of the exiled Catalan families.

Death Tarruella died in Barcelona on 1 January 1958, at the age of 87. His funeral was quite an event in the city.

Writings Sobre la urobilinuria (1897) Higiene de l'alimentació (1918) Semiologia de les ptosis digestives (1928).