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Pompeu Fabra

1868 - 1948

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pompeu Fabra is the 30th most popular linguist (down from 29th in 2019), the 304th most popular biography from Spain (up from 331st in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Pompeu Fabra ranks 30 out of 214. Before him are Algirdas Julien Greimas, William Jones, Johann Christoph Adelung, Sibawayh, Michael Halliday, and Otto Jespersen. After him are Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Ignác Goldziher, Bedřich Hrozný, Louis Hjelmslev, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, and Nicholas Marr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Pompeu Fabra ranks 42. Before him are Vittorio Monti, Florence Foster Jenkins, Huo Yuanjia, Scott Joplin, Josephine Bakhita, and Stefan George. After him are Felix Hausdorff, Édouard Vuillard, Magnus Hirschfeld, Eleanor H. Porter, Alexandra David-Néel, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Among people deceased in 1948, Pompeu Fabra ranks 38. Before him are John J. Pershing, Kurt Schwitters, Georges Bernanos, Lizzie Magie, Iwane Matsui, and Zelda Fitzgerald. After him are Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, Emil Ludwig, Feng Yuxiang, Yoshiko Kawashima, and Kōki Hirota.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pompeu Fabra ranks 304 out of 3,355. Before him are Carles Rexach (1947), Sancho IV of Castile (1258), Eulalia of Barcelona (290), Carlos Sainz (1962), Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (1609), and Prudentius (348). After him are Manuel Godoy (1767), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867), Niceto Alcalá-Zamora (1877), Silius Italicus (26), Benito Pérez Galdós (1843), and Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain (1729).

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Among LINGUISTS In Spain

Among linguists born in Spain, Pompeu Fabra ranks 1. After him are Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869), Joan Coromines (1905), Germà Colón (1928), Martí de Riquer i Morera (1914), and Francisco Rodríguez Adrados (1922).

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