Samuel Gili Gaya
Samuel Gil y Gaya (born February 16, 1892 in Lleida , † May 8, 1976 in Madrid ) was a Spanish Romance scholar , Hispanist and lexicographer.
life and work
Gili Gaya studied in Barcelona (pharmacology) and Madrid (philology) and received his doctorate in 1924 as a student of Tomás Navarro Tomás with the thesis Elementos fónicos que influyen en la entonación castellana . He was a scholarship holder at the Centro de Estudios Históricos by Ramón Menéndez Pidal . He taught in Baeza, Huesca and Madrid and published eight volumes of Spanish classics between 1922 and 1936. He has taught in Puerto Rico and Middlebury College . As a result of the Spanish Civil War , Gili Gaya, decried as a Catalanist , came to Santander and Torrelavega. From 1946 he headed the Spanish department for foreigners at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo . From 1952 he worked at the Diccionario Histórico of the Real Academia Española . After retiring in 1958, he returned to the University of Puerto Rico.
Gili Gaya was elected to the Real Academia Española in 1961 and was very active there. a. he contributed the syntax to the Esbozo de una nueva Gramática de la lengua española (1973). His most important lexicographical achievement is the Tesoro lexicográfico 1492–1726 (Madrid 1947–1957, 1005 pages), which summarized the vocabulary of 93 dictionaries from the 15th to the 18th centuries, but only for the letters A – E, as a electronic editing signed off. Among his other dictionaries, comparative synonymy from 1958 stands out.
The Chair of Catalan Culture at the University of Lleida has been named after him since 1968.
Works
- (Ed.) Historiadores de los siglos XVI y XVII , Madrid 1925
- Ortografía práctica española , Madrid / Valencia 1937; 11th edition Barcelona 1986
- Resumen práctico de Gramática Española , Madrid / Valencia 1937
- Curso superior de Sintaxis española , Mexico 1943, 2nd edition, Barcelona 1948, 15th edition 2002
- Iniciación en la Historia literaria universal , Barcelona 1944
- Diccionario general ilustrado de la lengua española , Barcelona 1945 (Vox)
- Tesoro lexicográfico, 1492-1726 , 3 fascicles, Madrid 1947 (A-C); A – E, 1 vol., Madrid 1957
- (Ed.) Diego de San Pedro, Obras , Madrid 1950
- Elementos de fonética general , Madrid 1950
- Nociones de Gramática histórica española, Barcelona 1952
- (Ed.) Andrés Bello, Estudios filológicos. 1. Principios de la ortología y métrica de la lengua castellana y otros escritos , Caracas 1955
- Diccionario de sinónimos , Barcelona 1958 (comparative synonymy)
- Diccionario manual ilustrado de la lengua española , Barcelona 1959
- Diccionario abreviado de la lengua española , 2nd edition, Barcelona 1960, 16th edition 1985
- L'Atlantida de Verdaguer. Lliço inaugural de la Cátedra de Cultura Catalana, llegida el 14 d'octubre de 1968 , Lleida 1969
- Diccionario escolar de la lengua española , Barcelona 1971
- Estudios de lenguaje infantil , Barcelona 1972
- Nuestra lengua materna. Observaciones gramaticales y léxicas , San Juan de Puerto Rico 1973
- Estudios sobre el ritmo , ed. by Isabel Paraíso, Madrid 1993
literature
- Homenaje a Samuel Gili Gaya. In memoriam , Barcelona 1979 (with list of publications)
- Samuel Gili Gaya. Vida i obra (1892-1976), lleida 1991
- María Nieves Vila Rubio, Samuel Gili Gaya. Estudio biográfico e introducción a su obra lingüís tica, Diss. Barcelona 1994
Web links
- http://biblioteca.cchs.csic.es/bibliografias/gili_gaya/semblanza_gili.php (with picture)
- http://cataleg.udl.cat/record=b1277950~S11*cat (with picture)
- http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/g/gili.htm
- Photography by Samuel Gili Gaya
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gili Gaya, Samuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gil y Gaya, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish Romance philologist, Hispanist and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lleida |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1976 |
| Place of death | Madrid |