Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda

writer and linguist

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1862

Place of Birth: Manacor, Balearic Islands, Spain

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1932

Profession: writer, architect, Catholic priest, romanist, linguist, lexicographer

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda

  • Father Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, also known (in Catalan) as Mossèn Alcover (pronounced [mu's?n ?lku've]; 2 February 1862 in Santa Cirga, Manacor – 8 January 1932 in Palma) was a modernist Majorcan writer, who wrote on a wide range of subjects including the Catholic Church, folklore and linguistics.
  • He is chiefly associated with efforts to revive interest in the Catalan language and its dialects.
  • Among his works was a Catalan-Valencian-Balearic dictionary.

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