The (English: the ''Great Catalan Encyclopedia'') is a
Catalan-language
Catalan () is a Western Romance language and is the official language of Andorra, and the official language of three autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community, where it is called ''Val ...
encyclopedia, started in fascicles, and published in 1968 by . The soul of the work was written by
Max Cahner
Max Cahner i Garcia (3 December 1936 – 14 October 2013) was a Catalan politician, and editor and historian of Catalan literature.
Career
Cahner was born in Bad Godesberg, now a municipal district of Bonn, Germany, to a Jewish-Catalan father a ...
, and the first director was
Jordi Carbonell
Jordi Carbonell i de Ballester (; 23 April 1924 – 22 August 2016) was a Spanish politician from Catalonia.
A graduate in Romance philology from the University of Barcelona, Carbonell was a professor in Catalan Language at the Autonomous Univers ...
. From the second volume the work had its own publisher: Enciclopedia Catalana SA with
Jordi Pujol
Jordi Pujol i Soley (, born 9 June 1930) is a retired Catalan politician who was the leader of the party Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) from 1974 to 2003, and President of the Generalitat de Catalunya from 1980 to 2003.
Early life ...
, and the new director was .
Overview
The encyclopedia collects alphabetical entries about different subjects: history, geography, cultural studies, etc. It includes worldwide views as well as, when appropriate, Catalan viewpoints and information (meaning that the work is very thorough and often written with first hand information). It also contains a dictionary of common vocabulary, which was reviewed in the first edition of the work by .
GEC had a fixed team that wrote the content, and furthermore a broad set of partners, among which were the most prominent experts in each subject, which was involved in the preparation of the GEC with a great desire for service to the Catalan people.
Later editions have come out with several volumes and an appendix, as well as a digital edition. In 1991 it received the
Cross of Saint George.
The ''Great Catalan Encyclopedia'' gained popularity and sold well, causing the encyclopedia to expand to include a broader series of historical, geographical, and lexical issues.
Editions
* First edition: July 1969
* Second edition: June 1986
* First reprint: April 1988
* Second reprint: March 1989
* Third reprint: June 1990
* Fourth reprint (updated): February 1992
* Fifth reprint: September 1992
* Sixth reprint (updated): October 1993
* Seventh reprint (updated): July 1994
* Eighth reprint (updated): January 1995
* Ninth reprint (updated): January 1996
* Tenth reprint (updated): May 1998
* Eleventh reprint (updated): October 2000.
See also
*
Jordi Peñarroja
Jordi-Vicenç Peñarroja Villanueva (born January 17, 1944), whose pseudonym
A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true meaning ( orthonym). This al ...
References
External links
''L'Enciclopèdia''(free access)
(subscription needed)
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