Germà Colón

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Germà Colón
Born
Germà Colón i Doménech

(1928-11-30)November 30, 1928
Castellón de la Plana, Spain
DiedMarch 22, 2020(2020-03-22) (aged 91)
Barcelona, Spain
NationalitySpanish
OccupationProfessor
AwardsCreu de Sant Jordi
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Barcelona
Alma materUniversity of Madrid
Thesis (1952)
Academic work
DisciplinePhilology
Sub-disciplineRomance philology and Catalan lexicology
InstitutionsUniversity of Basel
Notable worksEl léxico catalán en la Romania
In this
Catalan name, the first or paternal surname
is Colón and the second or maternal family name is Doménech; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".

Germà Colón i Doménech (30 November 1928 – 22 March 2020)[1] was a Spanish philologist of Romance philology and Catalan lexicology. He was appointed a professor at the University of Basel, in Switzerland.

Biography

Born on 30 November 1928 in

Martí de Riquer, before graduating in 1951. He got his PhD the next year in the University of Madrid, with a thesis about dialectology
(about the Castelló dialect).

Afterwards he got a grant and went to

Privat-Dozent since 1959, university teacher in 1963, and professor since 1967. After 1997, he became professor emeritus. He was at the same time a teacher at the University of Strasbourg (from 1968 to 1972) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1973–74).[citation needed
]

He became a member of the Real Academia de las Buenas Letras de Barcelona and the Commission for the publication of Ramon Llull's works. He joined as a member of the consultant board of the Els Nostres Clàssics collection and the editorial staff of the magazine Estudis de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes.[citation needed]

He had been an honorary consultant of the International Association of Catalan Language and Literature (he was president from 1976 to 1982) and member of the

IEC (1979), the Serra d'Or prize (1981), the Creu de Sant Jordi (1985) and the Literature Prize of the Generalitat de Catalunya (1987). In 1999, he received also the Gran Cruz de Alfonso X el Sabio.[citation needed
]

He received an honorary degree from the

University Jaume I of Castellón.[3]

Death

Colón died in his home in Barcelona on 22 March 2020, at the age of 91. The cause of death was reported as COVID-19, and had been suffering from respiratory problems for several years before.[4][5][6]

Selected works

  • El léxico catalán en la Romania (1976).
  • La llengua catalana en els seus textos (1978).
  • El panorama de la lexicografia catalana (1986).
  • Problemes de la llengua a València i als seus voltants (1987).
  • El español y el catalán, juntos y en contraste (1989).
  • Estudis de filologia catalana i romànica (1997).
  • Para la historia del léxico español (2002).
  • De Ramon Llull al Diccionari de Fabra. Acostament lingüístic als monuments de les lletres catalanes (2003).

References

  1. ^ "Detall - UAB Barcelona", www.UAB.cat, 2010, web: UAB-109.
  2. ^ The linguistic atlas of England, Harold Orton, 1998, p. PR5, webpage: BooksG-1FE.
  3. ^ [1] Article about that in Las Provincias
  4. ^ S.L, EDICIONES PLAZA. "Generalitat, Ayuntamiento y UJI lamentan la muerte de Germà Colón". Castellonplaza.
  5. ^ Mediterráneo, El Periódico (22 March 2020). "Fallece el lingüista castellonense Germà Colón". El Periódico Mediterráneo.
  6. ^ "S'ha mort el lingüista Germà Colón, víctima de la Covid-19". VilaWeb (in Catalan). Retrieved 22 March 2020.

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