Real Academia Galega
| Real Academia Galega | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1904 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | |
| president | Xesús Alonso Montero |
| Website | academia.gal |
The Real Academia Galega (Royal Academy of Galician, RAG for short , Spanish Real Academia Gallega ) is the academic institution committed to studying the culture of Galicia and in particular the Galician language. It develops grammatical, orthographic and lexical norms and at the same time defends and promotes language. It also organizes the Día de las Letras Gallegas (Galician Literature Day) and decides which literary personalities will be presented on the occasion. The academy's members are influential figures in Galician culture and language. Xesús Alonso Montero has been President since 2013 .
history
The predecessor of the Real Academia Gallega was the Comisión Gestora para la creación de la Academia Gallega (Administrative Commission for the Creation of the AG), which was developed on the initiative of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Ramón Pérez Costales . This commission was initially an association of writers of Folklore Gallego .
In 1904 Manuel Murguía published an article in the Revista del Gran Hotel de Mondariz , in which he called for the establishment of an Academy of Galician. The article caused a stir and in 1905 the Sociedad Protectora de la Academia Gallega ( Society for the Promotion of the AG ) was founded in La Habana at the suggestion of Manuel Curros Enríquez and Xosé Fontenla Leal . In Galicia , the idea was taken up in the libraria Rexional of Eugenio Carré Aldao in La Coruna , some supporters gathered. The Real Academia Gallega was proclaimed on September 30, 1906 and consisted of 40 members and the president Manuel Murguía. The foundation ceremony took place in the rooms of the Reunión Recreativa e Instructiva de Artesanos , a year before their statutes were announced. The first goals were of a very basic linguistic nature and included, among other things, the creation of a dictionary and a grammar; Projects that should take many years to complete.
During the presidency of Murguía (1906–1923) the figure "Rosalía" was created, the publication of the Boletín de la Academia Gallega began and the academy dealt with disputes about the character of the political "Galleguismo". The second president, Andrés Martínez Salazar , only served a year before he passed away unexpectedly. The organization then fell into a period of inactivity, which promoted the establishment of the Seminario de Estudos Galegos . The third president was Eladio Rodríguez (1926–1934), while Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao and Antón Villar Ponte joined the academy during his tenure . Then Manuel Lugrís Freire became president, who had to resign in 1936 for health reasons. Then came the civil war , which silenced the institution and divided it into two camps. On one side there were republics like Pío Cabanillas Gallas and Castelao and on the other side scholars loyal to the regime. New members such as Xosé Filgueira Valverde also joined. The academy was partially pushed underground. The rector of the University of Santiago de Compostela saved them from disappearing . During this time Manuel Casas Fernández (1942–1960) and Sebastián Martínez-Risco y Macías (1960–1977) served as presidents. Franco and the Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne were accepted as associate members of the Academy. However, this honor for Franco was withdrawn in 2009.
In 1963 the initiative for the Día de las Letras Gallegas was born , which, although hardly appreciated at the beginning, developed an enormous dynamic over time. The headquarters of the Academy have been moved from the Palacio de María Pita , the seat of the municipality of La Coruña , to the current premises on Calle Tabernas . In 1972, RAG designed the current Galician coat of arms . Years later, the Academy of the Government of Galicia proposed to keep the memory of the old Bandera Gallega in the modern flag of Galicia . The result was the insertion of the coat of arms in the former sea flag, as it is used today in many official areas.
During the presidency of Domingo García-Sabell (1977–1997) an agreement was reached with the Instituto da Lingua Galega on the Normas ortográficas y morfológicas del idioma gallego (1982), whereby a long-standing conflict could be settled and the academy was recognized as a normative institution by the Law Ley de Normalización Lingüística (1983). In 1998 the departments for history and literature were created, from the department for linguistics (Lingüística) the Seminario de Lexicografía (1983, editor of the first monolingual dictionary), and the department for sociolinguistics (Sociolingüística, 1990, editor of the Mapa Sociolingüístico de Galicia ), the Terminology (Terminología), Grammar (Gramática, 2000) and Onomástica (2001) departments.
Under the presidency of Francisco Fernández del Riego (1997–2001) the institution opened and under Xosé Ramón Barreiro Fernández (2001–2010) a comprehensive digitization of the sources and materials was carried out. A revision of the orthographic norms has been carried out since 2003. In connection with the Día de las Letras Gallegas in 2009, the Academy once again published a memorandum in which the need for bilingual education was highlighted. The other presidents of the academy are Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín (2010–2013) and Xesús Alonso Montero .
Individual evidence
- ↑ to date 263 issues have been published
- ↑ Franco fóra da nosa Academia , Méndez Ferrín In: Faro de Vigo. August 24, 2009.
Web links
- Academy website .
Coordinates: 43 ° 22 ′ 9.9 ″ N , 8 ° 23 ′ 40.1 ″ W.