Joan Amades
Joan Amades i Gelats (born July 23, 1890 in Barcelona , † January 17, 1959 there ) was a Catalan ethnologist and folklorist . Self-taught by training, he worked in the City History Archives of Barcelona and in the Museum of Crafts and Folk Art in the same city. From 1956 he worked with UNESCO . He was also an outstanding promoter of the Esperanto language and founded the Federació Esperantista Catalana ('Catalan Esperanto Association'). The book Costumari Català ('Collection of Catalan Customs') stands out from his great work , the main work on the exploration of Catalan popular culture .
Outstanding Fonts
- Les diades populars catalanes (1932-1949) (the Catalan popular holidays )
- Les cent millor cançons populars (1949) (the 100 best folk songs)
- Refranyer català comentat (1951) (annotated collection of Catalan proverbs)
- Les cent millors rondalles populars (1953) (the 100 best folk tales)
- Costumari Català (1950–1956) (Collection of Catalan Customs)
- Guia de les festes tradicionals de Catalunya. Itinerari per tot l'any (1958) (Guide to traditional festivals in Catalonia. Plan for the whole year)
bibliography
- Antoni Anguela, Lluís Calvo [and collaborators]: El món de Joan Amades . Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona 1990. ('The World of Joan Amades', in Catalan)
Web links
Commons : Joan Amades - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Històries i Llegende de Barcelona selecció a Eixample Web ( Memento of November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Stories and legends from Barcelona, in Catalan)
- Associació Cultural Joan Amades ( Joan Amades Cultural Association, in Catalan)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amades, Joan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Amades i Gelats, Joan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catalan ethnologist and folklorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 1959 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |