Manuel Alvar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Manuel Alvar

Spanish dialectologist, romanist and hispanist

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1923

Place of Birth: Benicarló, Valencian Community, Spain

Date of Death: 13-Aug-2001

Profession: historian, university teacher, romanist, hispanist, dialectologist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Manuel Alvar (July 8, 1923 - August 13, 2001) was a Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor who specialized in the study of dialectology and philology of the Spanish language.
Throughout his career, Alvar oversaw and influenced the creation of many Spanish linguistic atlases; maps which recorded speech variations in a given geographical area.
He served as Director of the Real Academia Española for four years, and was a member of language academies throughout Europe and Latin America.