Josep Balari i Jovany
mJosep Balari i Jovany (born November 11, 1844 in Barcelona , † July 1, 1904 ibid) was a Spanish classical philologist, historian, Romanist and Catalanist .
life and work
Balari received his doctorate from the University of Barcelona in 1869 with the thesis Puede la conciencia humana servir de base a la filosofia? He taught shorthand from 1872 and in 1881 occupied the chair for Greek, where, under the influence of reading Georg Curtius , he opened up to contemporary linguistics and applied its method to Catalan. The climax of this research was his historical and philological book on the historical foundations of Catalonia (Barcelona 1899). He was president of the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona from 1893 to 1901 . A street in Barcelona is named after him.
Works
- Influencia de la civilización romana en Cataluña comprobada por la orografía . Estudio filológico, histórico, comparativo leído en la Real Academia de Ciencias Naturales y Artes; sesión de 20 april de 1888, Barcelona, Álvaro Verdaguer, 1888.
- Poesía fósil. Estudios etimológicos , Barcelona, Álvaro Verdaguer, 1888.
- Intensivos o superlativos de la lengua catalana , Barcelona, Jepús, 1895.
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Orígenes históricos de Cataluña , Barcelona, Jaime Jepús, 1899; San Cugat del Vallés, Instituto Internacional de Cultura Románica, 1964; Valladolid, Maxtor, 2009 (751 pages).
- Laura Trias Ferri, Índex lèxic i conceptual dels "Orígenes históricos de Cataluña" de Josep Balari i Jovany , Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 2008.
- Diccionario Balari. Inventario lexicográfico de la lengua catalana , ed. by Manuel de Montoliu , 2 vols., Barcelona 1927–1928 ( A – Gutaperxa ).
- Escrits filològics , ed. by Pere J. Quetglas, Barcelona, Alta Fulta, 1990.
literature
- Ramon d'Abadal, Balari y Jovany y sus "Orígenes históricos de Cataluña". Discurs pronunciat amb motiu de la inauguració de curs a la Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, el dia 15 de gener de 1961, in: Boletín de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona 1961–1962.
- Pere J. Quetglas, “Josep Balari i Jovany. El camí cap a Europa ”, in: Del romanticisme al noucentisme. Els grans mestres de la filologia catalana i la filologia clàssica a la Universitat de Barcelona , Barcelona, Publicacions i Edicions Universitat de Barcelona, 2004, pp. 41-50.
Web links
- Literature by and about Josep Balari i Jovany in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
- http://www.onomastica.cat/sites/onomastica.cat/files/Biografies.%20BalariJovanyJosep.pdf (Bio-bibliographic note, Catalan, with picture)
- «Balari i Jovany, Josep, 1844-1904» Antics Posseïdors ( Universitat de Barcelona. CRAI Biblioteca de Reserva )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Balari i Jovany, Josep |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Balary y Jovany, José |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish classical philologist, historian, Romanist and Catalanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1844 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1904 |
Place of death | Barcelona |