Pere Bohigas
Pere Bohigas (born February 20, 1901 in Vilafranca del Penedès , † February 27, 2003 in Barcelona ) was a Spanish librarian, Romanist and Catalan scholar .
life and work
Bohigas received his doctorate from the University of Barcelona in 1925 with the thesis Los textos españoles y gallego-portugueses de la Demanda del santo grial and taught (after further study visits to Paris and England) at the university and at the librarianship school paleography . From 1941 to 1971 he was head of the manuscript department of the Catalan Library ( Biblioteca de Catalunya ) in Barcelona. From 1962 to 1989 he was President of the Philological Department of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans . He was a member of the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona and was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi Prize in 1990.
Works
- El libro español. Ensayo histórico , Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1962.
- Aportació a l'estudi de la literatura catalana , Barcelona, Montserrat, 1982.
- Sobre manuscrits i biblioteques , Barcelona, Curial, 1985.
- Lírica trobadoresca del sail XV. Joan Basset i altres poetes inèdits del Cançoner Vega-Aguiló , Valencia / Montserrat, 1988.
Editorial activity
- Bernat Oliver, Excitatori de la pensa a Deu , Barcelona, Barcino, 1929.
- Los mejores cuentistas españoles , 2 vols., Madrid, Plus-Ultra, 1946.
- Tractats de cavalleria , Barcelona, Barcino, 1947.
- Ausiàs March , Poesies , 5 vols., Barcelona, Barcino, 1952-1959.
- Miracles de la Verge Maria. Col-lecció del sail XIV , Barcelona, 1956.
- El baladro del sabio Merlín , 2 vols., Barcelona, 1957–1962.
- Ramon Llull , Llibre de les bèsties , Barcelona, Edicions 62, 1965.
- Cançoner popular català , Barcelona, Montserrat, 1983.
literature
- Miscel • lània Pere Bohigas , 3 vols., Montserrat, 1981–1983.
- Père Bohigas, Inventario de códices miniaturados o iluminados de procedencia catalana o existentes en bibliotecas catalanas , Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, 2000 (with picture, first 1960–1967).
- Mirall d'una llarga vida. A Pere Bohigas, centenari , Barcelona, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2001.
- Antoni Maria Badia i Margarit , “Pere Bohigas i Balaguer”, in: Estudis Romànics 26, 2004, pp. 511-516.
- Anna Gudayol, Les missions a París i Anglaterra de Père Bohigas, in: Art fugitiu. Estudis d'art medieval desplaçat , ed. by Rosa Alcoy, Barcelona, Universitat, 2014, pp. 339–357.
Web links
- Literature by and about Pere Bohigas in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.raco.cat/index.php/AnuariVerdaguer/article/viewFile/68009/86223 (Manuel Jorba, “Pere Bohigas i Balaguer (1901-2003)”, in: Anuari Verdaguer 12, 2004, p. 304 -308) http://ddd.uab.cat/record/71414
- http://www.mcnbiografias.com/app-bio/do/show?key=bohigas-balaguer-pere-o-pedro (short biography, Spanish)
- http://datos.bne.es/persona/XX837094.html (list of fonts)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bohigas, Pere |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bohigas, Pedro; Bohigas i Balaguer, Pere |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish librarian, Romanist and Catalanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1901 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilafranca del Penedès |
DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 2003 |
Place of death | Barcelona |