Manuel Alvar

Manuel Alvar (born July 8, 1923 in Benicarló , † August 13, 2001 in Madrid ) was a Spanish Romance philologist , Hispanist and dialectologist .

life and work

Manuel Alvar López studied at the University of Zaragoza , then at the University of Salamanca . There he already represented the chair for literature in 1945. He received his doctorate in Madrid in 1946 with the thesis El habla del campo de Jaca (Madrid 1948) and was professor of Spanish language history at the University of Granada from 1948 to 1968 . From 1968 to 1971 he held the first chair in Spanish language at the Autonomous University of Madrid , from 1971 on the same chair at the Complutense University of Madrid . From 1977 to 1998 he was Professor at the University at Albany, The State University of New York (Distinguished Professor since 1991).

Alvar's global career as a visiting professor began in 1950 at the University of Erlangen . He founded the magazine Lingüística Española Actual and was editor of the magazine Revista de Filología Española . From 1990 he was a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Alvar supervised over 200 dissertations. His list of publications includes more than 800 titles, including numerous books and language atlases.

Honors

From 1974 Alvar was a member of the Real Academia Española and its president from 1988 to 1991. Alvar received twenty-five honorary doctorates, especially in the Spanish-speaking world, but also in Bordeaux, Pisa and Naples. He was a six-time honorary citizen.

progeny

Manuel Alvar was the father of the romanist Manuel Alvar Ezquerra (1950-2020), the romanist Carlos Alvar Ezquerra (* 1951) and the historian Jaime Alvar Ezquerra.

Web links

• Life and work of Manuel Alvar (with numerous pictures) (Spanish)