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Pompeu Fabra
Pompeu Fabra i Poch 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.
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sports · Spanish engineer and grammarian (1868–1948) · linguist · philologist · engineer · university teacher · writer · chemist · tennis player · romanist · also Pompeu Fabra, Pompeu Fabra Poch, Pompeu Fabra i Poch, Fabra
Born 20 February 1868 · Died 25 December 1948 · Q379785
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2026· 5 entries
Crónica Global: La Pompeu Fabra, única universidad catalana del Top 500 que retrocede en el Ranking de Shanghái
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Moovit: Arc De Triomf a Universitat Pompeu Fabra–Campus Del Poblenou con transporte público
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Moovit: Badalona Pompeu Fabra a El Masnou con transporte público
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Medical Xpress: Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: How Six Students at Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra Made Tender San Sebastián Drama ‘The Imminent Age’ in Under a Year
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2024· 1 entry
U.S. News & World Report: Pompeu Fabra University
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2023· 1 entry
RTVE: Pompeu Fabra, Sánchez Gozalbo, Villangómez i altres imprescindibles per a la cohesió del català
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2018· 1 entry
La Vanguardia: Pompeu Fabra, el químic que va trobar la fórmula de la llengua
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Pass-Through of Emissions Costs in Electricity Markets” in American Economic Review — cited 418 times.
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2012· 2 entries
Published “Metastatic Colonization Requires the Repression of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Inducer Prrx1” in Cancer Cell — cited 861 times.
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Published “Edible and Biodegradable Starch Films: A Review” in Food and Bioprocess Technology — cited 521 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Chitosan nanoparticles as delivery systems for doxorubicin” in Journal of Controlled Release — cited 588 times.
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1990· 1 entry
Published “Acute-phase response of human hepatocytes: Regulation of acute-phase protein synthesis by interleukin-6” in Hepatology — cited 562 times.
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1989· 1 entry
Published “Interleukin‐6 is the major regulator of acute phase protein synthesis in adult human hepatocytes” in FEBS Letters — cited 726 times.
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1968· 1 entry
As Introduction to Catalan Grammar (Introducció a la gramàtica catalana)
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1956· 1 entry
By Joan Coromines, and the Philological Conversations
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1948· 1 entry
Died 1948-12-25.
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1947· 2 entries
The Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona annulled the sentence
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His daughter Teresa was diagnosed with cancer, a fact that deeply upset him; it made him aware of his age and led him to think often about death
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1945· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse (1945).
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Career landmark: Regional Minister of the Government of Catalonia (1945–1948).
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1940· 1 entry
The provincial court of political responsibilities in Barcelona opened a file – number 2223 – against the publisher Josep Queralt i Clapés and him as suspects of Catalan nationalist affiliation
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1939· 2 entries
Five days after General Francisco Franco's troops entered Barcelona
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And was an active member of the local community
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1937· 1 entry
Published Les principals faltes de gramàtica (The Main Grammar Errors), a popular science book about language, edited by Editorial Barcino as part of the Barcino Popular Collection, revised by Fabra and co-written wit
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1934· 2 entries
Was arrested following the October events as head of the University Board, along with the rest of the members of the body
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Was one of the signatories of the manifesto "For the Conservation of the Catalan Race
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1933· 4 entries
Career landmark: chairperson (1933–1936).
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Fabra became president of the board of trustees of the newly created Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Career landmark: rector (1933–1930).
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When the Catalan Union of Sports Federations was created, he became its first president
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1932· 1 entry
Fabra directly obtained, due to his prestige, the chair of Catalan language at the University of Barcelona
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1930· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1930–1933).
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1927· 2 entries
Career landmark: president of PEN català (1927–1928).
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Was appointed professor of Catalan Prosody at the Institut del Teatre
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1925· 1 entry
Fabra began working for the Provincial Council of Barcelona (Diputació de Barcelona), specifically in the Department of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
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1923· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of PEN català (1923–1924).
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1918· 1 entry
With the publication of the Catalan Grammar (Gramàtica catalana), which was practically adopted as official, a new stage began that culminated in 1931 with the publication of the General Dictionary of the Catalan Languag
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1917· 2 entries
Career landmark: president of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (1917–1939).
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Career landmark: President of the Philological Section of the Institute for Catalan Studies (1917–1948).
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1914· 1 entry
Was one of the founders of the Badalona Lawn-Tennis Club, of which he was president
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1912· 2 entries
After holding a chair at the University of Bilbao, he decided to resign from his position and return to Catalonia to devote himself fully to linguistic work, which he had never entirely abandoned, even while living in th
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Published a Gramática de la lengua catalana, still in Spanish; a year later, he released the Normes ortogràfiques (1913), a broad orthographic reform issued by the Institute of Catalan Studies
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1906· 1 entry
Participated in the First International Congress of the Catalan Language with the paper Qüestions d'ortografia catalana ("Questions of Catalan Orthography")
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1902· 1 entry
Obtained by competitive examination the chair of chemistry at the School of Engineering in Bilbao
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1896· 1 entry
When the jury awarded him an honourable mention
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1895· 1 entry
Fabra submitted Contribució a la gramàtica de la llengua catalana to the special prize for best grammar at the Jocs Florals of 1895, which opposed his theories and was left vacant
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1889· 1 entry
Joined as an editor at L'Avenç, which in 1891 published through its editorial the grammar Ensayo de gramática del catalán moderno
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1868· 2 entries
Born 1868-02-20.
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At number 32 Carrer de la Mare de Déu de la Salut, in the La Salut neighborhood of the former village of Gràcia, and later lived at 87 Carrer Gran de Gràcia
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