Joan Bastardas i Parera (Barcelona, 1919-2009) was a Spanish Latinist and Romance philologist, the son of the lawyer and politician Albert Bastardas i Sampere. He studied at the

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, with Marià Bassols de Climent, and wrote a PhD dissertation on Medieval Latin syntax, for which he received the Antonio de Nebrija Prize (1951). He was also indirectly a student of the Swedish Latinist Dag Norberg. He was first appointed lecturer, then assistant (1967), and finally obtained a chair in Latin Philology (1976) at the University of Barcelona. His research was devoted to Medieval Latin (particularly Hispanic Medieval Latin) and to preliterary Catalan. He was director (1960-1985) of the ''Glossarium Mediae Latinitatis Cataloniae'', a dictionary of the Medieval Latin of Catalonia, a research project which is part of the global project ''Novum Glossarium Mediae Latinitatis'' of the

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. He was a member of the Fundació Bernat Metge committee, which publishes a series of Greek and Latin authors with a Catalan translation. He also collaborated to the ''Enciclopedia Lingüística Hispánica''. In 1972 he was elected a member of the

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, where he was also vice-president (1983-1986) and director of the "Lexicographic Office". He was also appointed as a member of the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona in 1977; his entering speech dealt with the Usatges de Barcelona ( customary laws of Barcelona; 12th century). He was awarded the cross "Creu de Sant Jordi" by the

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(1991), the prize Manuel Sanchis Guarner (1996), the essay prize by the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (1997) and the medal of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (1997).

Selected works

*''Particularidades sintácticas del latín medieval: Cartularios españoles de los siglos VIII al XII'' (1953). hD dissertation. Prize Antonio de Nebrija*''Usatges de Barcelona. El codi a mitjan segle XII'' (Barcelona: Fundació Noguera, 1984), editor satici Barchinonae; customs of Barcelona, 12th century*''La llengua catalana mil anys enrere'' (Barcelona: Curial, 1995) elected articles on preliterary Catalan*''Diàlegs sobre la meravellosa història dels nostres mots'' (Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1997) *''Els “camins del mar” i altres estudis de llengua i literatura catalana'' (Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 1998) *''Llegir i entendre. Estudis dispersos'' (Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2012) osthumous publication

External links

Speeches in memory of Joan Bastardas i Parera
; site of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Article in the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana
* Pere Quetglas,
In memoriam Joan Bastardas i Parera (1919-2009)
'', in: ''ALMA'' (2009), p. 5-11
Josep Lluís Vidal, Joan Bastardas i Parera (Barcelona, 4.II.1919-31.I.2009), in: ''Estudis Romànics'' 32 (1920), p. 647-649
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