Antoni Febrer i Cardona

Antoni Febrer i Cardona (born November 22, 1761 in Maó ; † February 16 or February 19, 1841 ibid) was a Spanish Catalanist .

life and work

Febrer grew up as a member of a noble family in Menorca . He studied law and received his doctorate in both rights in 1784 at the then University of Avignon . He was a member of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands . As an intellectual connected with Catalan (who also translated), he created a linguistic and literary work in old age that remained a long manuscript and has only recently been published in print.

Works

• Diccionari menorquí, espanyol, francès i llatí , ed. by Maria Paredes, Barcelona 2001
• Obres gramaticals 1 , ed. by Jordi Ginebra, Barcelona 2004
• Versions teatrals , ed. by Joan Mas i Vives and Maria Isabel Ripoll Perelló, Barcelona 2004
• Gloses i cobles , ed. by Maria Paredes Baulida and Josefina Salord Ripoll, Barcelona 2005
• Poesies , ed. by Maria Paredes Baulida and Josefina Salord Ripoll, Barcelona 2005
• Obres didàctiques 1 , ed. by Maria Paredes, Minorca 2006
  • Obres didàctiques 2. Mètode de cant , ed. by Xavier Daufí, Barcelona 2009
• Preceptiva poètica , ed. by Joan R. Veny-Mesquida, Barcelona 2008

literature

• Jordi Carbonell, Antoni Febrer i Cardona i el comte d'Aiamans, dues figures de la il.lustració, in: Butlletí de la Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona 34, 1972, pp. 88-146
• Maria Paredes i Baulida, Antoni Febrer i Cardona. Un humanista il • lustrat a Menorca (1761-1841) , Barcelona 1996
• Jordi Ginebra, L'obra gramatical d'Antoni Febrer i Cardona , 1761–1841, Maó 1996
• Peter Swiggers, 17. History of grammars and linguistic teachings of Romance languages, in: Lexikon der Romance Linguistik (LRL) I, 1, ed. by Günter Holtus, Michael Metzeltin and Christian Schmitt, Tübingen 2001, pp. 476–532 (here: 496)

Web links

• http://lletra.uoc.edu/ca/autor/antoni-febrer-i-cardona (Appreciation by Maria Paredes, Catalan)