Diego Catalán
Diego Catalán Menéndez-Pidal (16 September 1928 – 9 April 2008) was a Spanish
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Born | Diego Catalán Menéndez-Pidal September 16, 1928 folklorist and professor |
Early life
Diego Catalán Menéndez-Pidal was born in
Along with one other pupil, Catalán's class was the first to graduate from the Colegio Estudio after the Spanish Civil War following the completion of his bachillerato. Catalán then continued his education at the Complutense University of Madrid between 1944 and 1949, where he studied Romance languages.[2]
Archivo del Romancero
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Catalán was primarily a
- "Atlantic", which broadly speaking includes the southern part of Spain and the Americas.
- "Continental", which includes the remainder of mainland Spain.
Catalán was the owner of the Archivo del Romancero (Ballad Archive), which covers materials and work of philological and historical research. The archive includes works from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and is held by the Ramón Menéndez Pidal Foundation, a research and training centre for researchers, scholars and hispanists. The archive was considered a national treasure and thus was protected at the League of Nations' headquarters in Geneva during the Spanish Civil War. Pidal passed the archive to Catalán testamentarily, examples of which have been included in the subsections below.
1. Archivo del Romancero Hispánico Menéndez Pidal/Goyri (AMP)
This is a collection of thousands of written documents that include the Romancero Antiguo (Old Ballad), which contained texts from the
2. Archivo Sonoro del Romancero Débora Catalán (ASOR)
This archive contains all magnetic tapes recorded in surveys and field investigations. The most significant projects in the collection are Edición y análisis de estructuras abiertas: el modelo Romancero (translated as "Editing and analysis of open structures: the Romancero model"), and Description, Editing and Analysis of the Pan-Hispanic Romancero by Diego Catalán. These were sponsored by the
3. Archivo de la Lengua Española y Lenguas Circunvecinas
This contains all files and scientific material used by Pidal to prepare, among others, his magnum opus, Historia de la Lengua Española, which was published posthumously in 2005 and again as a second edition in 2007. In addition to medieval documents and drafts of Pidal's work, the archive contains thousands of files that relate to
4. Archivo de Historiografía Peninsular y Épica
This is a collection of texts in photography, microfilm and handwritten copies of medieval works whose various manuscripts can be found in multiple libraries around the world, along with annotations and handwritten studies by Pidal, Catalán, and
5. Archivo cultural de fines del siglo XIX y primera mitad del siglo XX
This includes scientific and institutional correspondence between Pidal and both researchers and key figures in both Spanish and international culture from the late nineteenth century until the first half of the twentieth, such as Gaston Paris, Américo Castro, and Antonio Solalinde, among others.
6. Archivo de los Laboratorios Humanísticos
This archive contains documentation and correspondence gathered by Catalán and archived within the Foundation, pertaining to the periods during which he initially served as Director of Research, and subsequently as Director of the Seminario Menéndez Pidal (“Menéndez Pidal Seminar”). This collection shows the administrative, institutional, and academic developments that led to the establishment and continuation of the research and educational institution, Casa Menéndez Pidal ("Menéndez Pidal House").
7. Archivo de Materiales y Obras para el conocimiento de la Historia de la Cultura Hispánica
This is a documentary collection of investigations that accompanied Pidal's work, such as files from both him and wife on literature, linguistics, history, and literary and historical figures.
8. Archivo Miguel A. Catalán
Named after Catalán's father, Miguel Catalán, who was considered an important scientific figure in Spain during the first half of the twentieth century,[3] this archive contains books, leaflets, drafts, letters, photographs and other scientific material related to the fields of physics, chemistry and spectrochemistry from Spain's scientific awakening during the early twentieth century.[3]
Works
All works have been included with their original Spanish titles unless a version in English exists.
1950s
- 1953: Poema de Alfonso XI: fuentes, dialecto, estilo
- 1955: La escuela lingüística española y su concepción del lenguaje
1960s
- 1962: De Alfonso X al Conde de Barcelos: cuatro estudios sobre el nacimiento de la historiografía romance en Castilla y Portugal
- 1969: Siete siglos de romancero (historia y poesía)
1970s
- 1970: Por campos del romancero: estudios sobre la tradición oral moderna
- 1974: La Tradición oral manuscrita en la "Crónica de Alfonso XI"
- 1974: Lingüística íbero-románica: crítica retrospectiva
1980s
- 1983/1984: El Romancero pan-hispánico: Catálogo general descriptivo (The Pan-Hispanic ballad: general descriptive catalogue). This was written by Catalán in collaboration with the Seminario Menéndez Pidal.
- 1989: El Español: orígenes de su diversidad
- 1989: Las lenguas circunvecinas del castellano: cuestiones de dialectología hispano-románica. This was written by Catalán in collaboration with Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes, a fellow Spanish philologist, dialectologist and arabist.
1990s
- 1991: Romancero general de León: antología 1899-1989. This was written by Catalán in collaboration with Mariano de la Campa and Débora Catalán and published in two volumes of the Editorial de la Universidad Complutense.
- 1992: La Estoria de España de Alfonso X: creación y evolución
- 1997: De la silva textual al taller historiográfico alfonsí : códices, crónicas, versiones y cuadernos de trabajo
- 1997/1998: Arte poética del Romancero oral: los textos abiertos de creación colectiva
2000s
- 2001: El archivo del romancero: historia documentada de un siglo de historia(dos tomos).
- 2001: La épica española: nueva documentación y nueva evaluación
- 2002: El Cid en la historia y sus inventores
- 2005: Rodericus” romanzado, en los reinos de Aragón. Castilla y Navarra. This was written by Catlán in collaboration with Enrique Jerez.
- 2005/2006: Historia de la lengua by Ramón Menéndez Pidal (volume I), where Catalán provided notes and edits, and Una catedral para una lengua: Introducción a la historia de la lengua española de Menéndez Pidal (volume II).
Death
Catalán died of
References
- ^ a b c d Pascual, Jose Antonio (2008-04-13). "Diego Catalán, filólogo y hombre de bien". El País. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
- ^ a b Fundación Ramón Menéndez Pidal (2024-04-05). "Biografía Diego Catalán". Fundacion Ramón Menendez Pidal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ a b Fundación Ramón Menéndez Pidal (2024-04-05). "Archivo de Miguel Catalán". Fundacion Ramón Menendez Pidal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-05.