Ramon Amigó Anglès

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Ramon Amigó Anglès

Ramon Amigó Anglès (1925–2011) (Spanish) was a writer, a teacher of Catalan and an onomast.

Biography

Ramon Amigó Anglès was born in Reus, Baix Camp, to Ramon Amigó Pujol, from Falset, and Rosa Anglès Solé, from Reus. They had another son, who died before Ramon was born, and a daughter called Rosa. His education began at Cros de Reus school and in 1936 he went on to the Grup Escolar Francesc Macià. In 1937 he started secondary education but did not finish his first year there as the Spanish Civil War caused him to move to Selva, where he lived until the start of 1939. Nevertheless, through informal education he managed to learn Catalan, French, English and basic Latin. In the 1940s he was greatly influenced in the field of Catalan language teaching by Teresa Miquel i Pàmies, a disciple of Pompeu Fabra. During the same period he developed his knowledge of literature and politics thanks to the teachings of Joaquim Santasusagna, an acclaimed geographer, writer and activist. Due to his father's imprisonment following the end of the war, Ramon had to give up his studies to work in a company exporting nuts and dried fruit, and given his command of French, English and German, he was tasked with handling the business's international correspondence. In his friendships with Joaquim Santasusagna and Josep Iglésies, a geographer, historian and writer, he developed an interest in studies of the local territory. These pursuits led to his involvement in the Associació Excursionista de Reus, a hiking association founded in the autumn of 1947, of which he was president. He was responsible for changing the language of its newsletter to Catalan as of the 1960s and he contributed to historical and linguistic studies of municipalities in Camp de Tarragona. His work enabled the republication of the hiking guide Les muntanyes de Prades, el Montsant i Serra la Llena (1960). In the latter part of the 1940s he took part in the clandestine cultural gatherings known as the maquis de la poesia, in which Joaquim Santasusagna was also involved. In 1949, together with Xavier Amorós and Josep Maria Arnavat (the three were known as the Triple A), he collaborated in the Amics de la Poesia (Friends of Poetry) group, under the umbrella of the literary section of the Centre de Lectura de Reus, which had by then been reopened.[1]

In 1961 he began working with teachers Teresa Miquel and Robert Miralles to organize Catalan language classes.

Franco's dictatorship
. Their work led to the organization of an education section of the Fòrum Joventut youth association, supported by the church in Reus. They also launched elementary level correspondence courses for towns and villages across Camp de Tarragona, in which several dozen students took part. Amigó became involved in two noteworthy civic organizations: the aforementioned Centre de Lectura and the Associació d'Estudis Reusencs.[2] He was secretary of the latter – which published research into the history and culture of Reus and Baix Camp – from 1959 to 1975. During that time he changed the language for all the institution's internal documents to Catalan. He later became its president, lasting in the role from 1979 to 1997. This period included the drafting of new statutes in 1984 and a broadening of the scope of research to include language studies. From June 1973 to June 1975 he was the president of the Centre de Lectura and editor of its Revista publication, and he made it a participant in national Catalan activities such as the Flama de la Llengua Catalana. He was also considered an important figure in onomatology and was teacher to a generation of learned scholars in Camp de Tarragona.[2]

Amigó published various books on

Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona. From 1980 until his death he was vice president of the Onomatology Society of Catalonia.[2] And from 1994 until his death he was a member of the Philological Section of the Institute for Catalan Studies.[2] In 1997 he was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi.[2]

He died in Reus on 16 September 2011. A service was held at the funeral home of the same city, where the flag was flown at half mast with a black ribbon.[3] Reus named a square after him, opposite the Mas Iglésies building, which houses centres for visual arts and photography.

Publications

Awards

References

  1. ^ Ferré i Trill, Xavier (2012). "Ramon Amigó Anglès (1925–2011)". Podall: Publicació de cultura, patrimoni i ciències (núm. 2): 264–268.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g La Vanguardia (19 September 2011). "Mestre de l'onomàstica".
  3. ^ a b La Vanguardia (16 September 2011). "Fallece en Reus a los 86 años el escritor Ramon Amigó".
  4. ^ a b Societat Catalana de Geografia. "Activitats de 1955".
  5. ^ a b Societat Catalana de Geografia. "Activitats de 1961".

Bibliography

  • X. Ferré Trill. Ramon Amigó i Anglès, pedagog del territori (1925–2011): aportació a la sociabilitat cultural. Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2013.
  • Nota necrològica per Joaquim Mallafrè, Estudis Romànics 35 (2013), p. 709–711

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