Germà Colon
Germà Colon Domènech ( Spanish Germán Colón Domènech ; born November 30, 1928 in Castelló de la Plana ; † March 22, 2020 in Barcelona ) was a Spanish Romanist . His main field was the Catalan lexicology . From 1963 to 1997 he was a professor at the University of Basel .
biography
Colon studied Romance studies at the University of Barcelona with Antoni Maria Badia i Margarit and Martí de Riquer and graduated in 1951. The following year he received his doctorate from the University of Madrid with a dissertation on the dialect of his hometown Castelló.
He then got a scholarship and went to Leuven and Zurich , where he met some of the most respected European Romanists such as Sever Pop . The Swiss philologist Walther von Wartburg suggested him as a lecturer in Spanish at the University of Basel, where he has taught since then. Colon received his habilitation in 1959 and was appointed associate professor in 1963 and full professor of Romance philology in 1967. He was retired in 1997 . He was visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg (1968 to 1972) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1973–1974).
Colon became a member of the Real Academia de las Buenas Letras of Barcelona and of the Editing Commission for the works of Ramon Llull . He was an adviser to the management of the Els Nostres Clàssics collection and to the editor of the magazine Estudis de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes . He was an honorary advisor to the International Society for Catalan Language and Literature (he was President from 1976 to 1982) and a member of the Institute for Catalan Studies .
He donated his personal library with more than 20,000 books to the Jaume I University in Castelló.
Colon died on March 22, 2020 at the age of 91 as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Awards
Prices
- 1979: Prat de la Riba Prize from the Institute for Catalan Studies
- 1981: Serra d'Or Prize
- 1985: Creu de Sant Jordi Prize from the Generalitat de Catalunya
- 1987: Sanchis Guarner Prize from the Jaume I Foundation
- 1987: Literature Prize of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- 1988: Honorary Prize of the Valencian Humanities
- 1999: Gran Cruz de Alfonso X el Sabio (large cross of Alfonso X the Wise)
Honorary doctorates
- 1984: University of Valencia
- 1990: University of Alicante
- Jaume I University , Castellón
- 2003: Autonomous University of Barcelona
Works
- El léxico catalán en la Romania (1976).
- La llengua catalana en els seus textos (1978).
- The 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).
Web links
- Literature by and about Germà Colon in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Biography of Germà Colon on the website of the Autonomous University of Barcelona ( Memento of March 22, 2012 on the Internet Archive ) (Catalan)
- The germà colon Domènech Foundation website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ El profesor Germà Colón dona a la UJI los 22,000 volumes de su biblioteca privada. In: lasprovincias.es. May 23, 2010, Retrieved June 4, 2013 (Spanish).
- ↑ S'ha mort el lingüista Germà Colón, víctima de la Covid-19th In: VilaWeb. March 22, 2020, accessed March 22, 2020 (Catalan).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Colon, Germà |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Colón Domènech, Germán (full name, Spanish); Colon Domènech, Germà (full name, Catalan) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castelló de la Plana |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 2020 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |