Antoni Maria Badia i Margarit, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Catalan linguist
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Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
About Antoni Maria Badia i Margarit
- Antoni Maria Badia i Margarit (May 30, 1920 – November 16, 2014) was a Catalan linguist and philologist who produced works on the grammar and history of the Catalan language.
- He was born in Barcelona.He graduated in philology or Romance languages at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1943, where he was professor of history of Catalan language and Spanish language.
- He was rector of Universitat de Barcelona from 1978 to 1986.
- He is visitor professor of several universities around the world (Munich, Heidelberg, Georgetown, Wisconsin, and Sorbone in Paris).
- He is doctor honoris causa by several universities (Salzburg, Toulouse, Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Sorbone in Paris, and Illes Balears).
- He has been president of the Société de Linguistique Romane, president of Philology section of Institut d'Estudis Catalans, president of Associació Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes, president of North-American Catalan Society, president of Deutsch-Katalanische Gesellschaft, and president of Segon Congrés Internacional de la Llengua Catalana (1986).
- He died in 2014, aged 94.
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