Pompeu Fabra
1868 – 1948 · aged 80
Catalan linguist (1868–1948)
- Born
- 20 Feb 1868 · La Salut
- Died
- 25 Dec 1948 · Prades
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 20 Feb 1868BornBorn in La Salut
- 1917 – 1939RolePresident of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans
- 1917 – 1948RolePresident of the Philological Section of the Institute for Catalan Studies
- 1923 – 1924RolePresident of PEN català
- 1927 – 1928RolePresident of PEN català
- c. 1930 – 1933RoleChairperson
- 1933 – 1936RoleChairperson
- 1933RoleRector
- 1945 – 1948RoleRegional Minister of the Government of Catalonia
- 1945AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Toulouse
- 25 Dec 1948DiedDied in Prades
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1868 – 1948).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
Biography
Pompeu Fabra i Poch (Catalan pronunciation: [pumˈpɛw ˈfaβɾə]; 20 February 1868 – 25 December 1948) was a Catalan engineer, linguist, and grammarian. He was the main author of the normative reform of the contemporary Catalan language and is considered the father of modern Catalan grammar. The Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona is named after him.
Fabra was known as the "wise organizer of the Catalan language" for his pioneering work establishing the modern norms of the language.
The Catalan writer Josep Pla wrote that "Fabra has been the most important Catalan of our time because he is the only citizen of this country, at this time, who, having set out to achieve a specific public and general goal, accomplished it in an explicit and indisputable way."
Text from the Wikipedia article Pompeu Fabra, CC BY-SA 4.0
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