Pompeu Fabra i Poch, (Barcelona 1868 - Prada de Conflent 1948) was a Catalan grammarian, the main author of the normative reform of contemporary Catalan language. Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 100. ... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Thomas Mertons birthplace in Prades Prades (Prada de Conflent in Catalan) is a commune and a sous-préfecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales département, in southwestern France. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about grammar from a linguistic perspective. ... Catalan (Català) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra and co-official in two regions of Spain. ...

Trained as a mechanical engineer, from a quite young age he dedicated himself to the study of the Catalan language. Through a group called L'Avenç, he promoted a campaign to reform Catalan orthography (1890-91), publishing in (1904) with Jaume Massó i Torrents and Joaquim Casas i Carbó a Tractat d'ortografia catalana. He participated actively in the First International Congress of the Catalan language (1906). In 1912 he published his Gramática de la llengua catalana. The orthography of a language is the set of rules of how to write correctly in the writing system of a language. ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ...

Fabra moved from Bilbao to Barcelona in 1911, to become a professor (catedràtic) of Catalan -- a position created by the diputació (local government) of Barcelona -- and a member of the department of philology at the newly created Institut d'Estudis Catalans, of which he later became president. Location of Bilbao in Spain Cityscape of Bilbao, with the Guggenheim Museum on the bottom right Bilbao from satellite (NASA World Wind Landsat) Bilbao (Basque: Bilbo) in the North of Spain, is the largest city in the Pais Vasco and the capital of the province of Vizcaya (Basque: Bizkaia). ... Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 100. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... The Institut dEstudis Catalans (IEC) is an academic institution. ...

The Institute published the Normes ortogràfiques in 1913, the Diccionari ortogràfic in 1917, and its official Gramàtica catalana in 1918. 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...

In 1918, Fabra edited the textbook Curs mitjà de gramàtica catalana, published by l'Associació Protectora de l'Ensenyança Catalana (1918). 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...

His "Converses filològiques", first published in the newspaper "La Publicitat", were later collected as "Popular Barcino". Probably his most famous work was the Diccionari general de la llengua catalana (1932), the first edition of which later became the Institute's official dictionary. 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...

In 1932, owing to his scientific prestige, he was unanimously named a professor (catedràtic) of the Republican Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (not to be confused with the later Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona created in the 60s during the Francoist régime). 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... The Autonomous University of Barcelona (Catalan: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spanish: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, UAB) is a public university located in Bellaterra, very close to the city of Barcelona in Spain. ...

The Barcelona of this period, prior to the attempted destruction of Catalan culture and language by the forces of Generalísimo Francisco Franco was one in which intellectuals such as Fabra were well known and widely respected, and where Catalan was the everyday language in the street. [1] Francisco Franco Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco Bahamonde and sometimes known as Generalisimo Francisco Franco, was the dictator and Head of State of Spain from 1936/1939 until his death in 1975. ...

Imprisoned in 1934, he only became more popular in Catalonia. In 1939 he went into exile in France, where he was to live in Paris, Montpellier and Prada de Conflent. He presided over the literary competition of Jocs Florals in Montpellier in 1946. Every year, his tomb in Cuixà near Prada, is visited by thousands of Catalans. 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... // Events January-March January 2 - End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Location within France Montpellier (Occitan Montpelhièr) is a city in the south of France. ... Thomas Mertons birthplace in Prades Prades (Prada de Conflent in Catalan) is a commune and a sous-préfecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales département, in southwestern France. ... Location within France Montpellier (Occitan Montpelhièr) is a city in the south of France. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

References

This article was translated from the corresponding article| in the Catalan-language wikipedia, which does not clarify the occasion of Fabra's 1934 arrest, but it was presumably immediately after the failed Catalan uprising of October 1934.

External link

• Biographical notice by Josep Pla (in catalan)