Jaume Medina

Jaume Medina (2017)

Jaume Medina i Casanovas (born April 6, 1949 in Vic ) is a Catalan philologist , Latinist , writer , translator and poet .

Life

Academic resume

He attended high school from his birthplace. In 1972 he graduated from the University of Barcelona in Classical Philology . In 1976 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on The Classical Rhythms in Catalan Poetry at the Autonomous University of Barcelona . He has been teaching Latin studies at this university since 1972. In 2009 he became a professor.

research

His research is particularly related to philology. He has studied the Latin language and literature of all time. His specialties are the research of vulgar, late, medieval and humanistic Latin, along with classical rhetoric , verse theory and style . He has also done research on Roman thought and civilization. He has participated in various Latin introductory courses. He has also conducted many doctoral courses. He has collaborated on many research projects. He has become director from a research project whose main purpose is the publication of Ramon Llull's Latin works . As a researcher, he has published more than three hundred studies on Latin studies (language and literature), classical tradition and Catalan studies (language and literature). He has given various courses, seminars and conferences on ancient and modern literature. He was the founder of the Catalan Society of Classical Studies (1979). In 1984 he was also the coordinator of the Carles Riba Symposium . He is a member of the editorial team of the Bernat Metge Foundation . He has also contributed to the history of Catalan literature in Riquer-Comas-Molas.

His diverse translations from Latin into Catalan have been published in the collections of Textos Filosòfics ('Philosophical Texts'), Clàssics del Cristianisme ('Classics of Christianity') and the Bernat Metge Foundation . He collaborated with the Raimundus Lullus Institute at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Germany) for the edition of Ramon Llull's Latin works . He has also published in the collection of Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis , published in Turnhout ( Belgium ) by Brepols-Verlag.

His articles and studies have appeared in many research and literary journals. The following can be cited: Presència , Els Marges , Faventia , Reduccions , Llengua & Literatura , Serra d'Or , Revista de Catalunya , L'Avenç , Clot , Faig , Quaderns de Pastoral , Ausa , Qüestions de Vida Cristiana , Cala Murta , estudis romànics , Ínsula , Revista de Filología Románica , Revista de lenguas y literaturas catalana, gallega y vasca , Analecta Sacra Tarraconensia , Quaderns de Versalia , Llengua Nacional , Studia Lulliana , and digital magazines Methodos , Mirandum , convenit , Revista Internacional d'Humanitats , Notandum , Mirabilia .

He has also worked with the following daily newspapers: La Vanguardia , El País , Avui , Catalunya Cristiana , El 9 Nou and the digital daily newspaper Núvol .

Literary creation

He can also be highlighted as a literary creator. He belonged to the poetic 1970 generation . He had also participated in the creation of the poetry collections Llibres del Mall and Ausiàs March 1973, where he published his first poetry books. He has also written a few literary reviews and essays. He has also written a play and a novel. His translations by ancient and modern authors have also had much success and expansion.

Works

poetry

• Temps de tempesta (1974). (Catalan)
• Encalçar el vent (1976). (Catalan)
• Dura llavor secreta (1990). (Catalan)
• D'ara i de semper (2000). (Catalan)
• Cobles devotes (2010). (Catalan)

novel

• El Perdut i el seu mirall (2016). (Catalan)

Literary criticism

• Lletres d'enguany i d'antany (2003). (Catalan)

essay

• Estudis de literatura catalana moderna i altres assaigs (2013). (Catalan)

research

Latin Philology

• Translation into Catalan by authors of all times of the Latin age: Catulus , Virgil , Horace , Ovid , Suetonius , Gaius Lutatius Catulus , Oliba de Besalú , Anselm of Canterbury , Ramon Llull , Erasmus of Rotterdam , Robert Bellarmin , Francesc Calça , John Locke and Baruch de Spinoza et al. a. (Catalan)
• La poesia llatina dels Països Catalans (Segles X-XX) (1996). (Catalan)
• La poesia llatina de Montserrat en els segles XVI – XVII (El Còdex Brenach de l'Arxiu Episcopal de Vic) (1998). (Catalan)
• Raimundi Lulli Opera Latina. 97-100. In Cypro, Alleas in Cilicia deque transmarinis ueniente annis MCCCI – MCCCII compilata (2005). (Latin)
• Raimundi Lulli Opera Latina 7-9, annis 1274-1276 composita (2009). (Latin)
• Sobre Ramon Llull (2013). (Catalan)

Classic tradition

• De l'Edat Mitjana al Dos mil. Estudis sobre la tradició clàssica a Catalunya . (2009). (Catalan)

Catalan Philology

• Studies on Ramon Llull , Jaume Balmes , Jacint Verdaguer , Josep Torras i Bages , Àngel Guimerà , Josep Carner , Miquel Martí i Pol , Joan Triadú , Albert Manent and other authors of the XX. Century. (Catalan)
• Publisher of the letter collection of Josep Torras i Bages and Josep Carner, and contributor to the publication of the letter collection of Carles Riba. (Catalan)
• Carles Riba (1893-1959) (1989). (Catalan)
• La plenitud poetica de Carles Riba. The period de les 'Elegies de Bierville' (1994). (Catalan)
• Les dames de Josep Carner (1998). (Catalan)
• Carles Riba i Joan Maragall o la moral de la paraula (2011). (Catalan)
• La lenta agonia del català, o l'ús de la llengua en els mitjans de comunicació (2013). (Catalan)
• El parlar d'una familia vigatana (2014). (Catalan)

rhetoric

• Translation into Catalan of the Rhetorica ad Herennium (2000). (Catalan)
• L'art de la paraula (2000), the first treatise on rhetoric and poetry to be published in Catalan. (Catalan)
• Edition of Ramon Llull's Rhetorica nova . (Latin)

Prices

• Award for the best translation into Catalan (1982), awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government).
• V. Fundació-Congrés-de-Cultura-Catalana-Prize (Foundation Congress for Catalan Culture) on biographical and facial research (1988).
• Serra d'Or Critique Prize (1990).
• Josep Carner Prize , awarded by the Institute for Catalan Studies (1997).
• Jaume Bofill i Ferro literary criticism award (1999).
• Camilo José Cela literary criticism prize . From the Ciutat de Palma prices (2010).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article on Jaume Medina in the Great Catalan Encyclopedia (Catalan)
2. ↑ A very complete list of translations from Latin into Catalan can be found in the files on Jaume Medina  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. can be read on the AELC website . (Catalan)  

Web links

• Files about Jaume Medina on the website of the Society of Catalan Language Writers (Catalan)