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Antoni Maria Alcover y Sureda (Santa Cirga,
Manacor,
1862 -
Palma,
1932) was a
modernist Majorcan writer, who wrote on a wide range of subjects including the
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.
Biography
Alcover was born in Santa Cirga, a small territory between
Manacor y Porto Cristo, the son of laborers. After studying
Latin and
classics he moved at the age of 15 to
Palma de Mallorca, where he continued his studies in
seminary. He became quickly known as a stubborn polemicist.
Although his first literary efforts were in
Spanish, he turned to the Catalan language after 1879. From this date, he undertook to collect the fables and folklore of
Majorca, which he began to publish in
1880 in various journals under the pseudonym Jordi d'es Racó. In
1886 he was
ordained and became the parish priest for Manacor. In
1888 he became a professor of ecclesiastical history at the seminary in Palma.
In
1906, by his initiative and under his presidency, the first
Congrés Internacional de la Llengua Catalana (International Congress of the Catalan Language) was held. He was named president of the philological branch of the
Institute for Catalan Studies, a position which quickly ended after a furious dispute with other members of the Institute.
His Magnum Opus was the
Català-Valencià-Balear Dictionary, which he didn't live to see completed. It was finished by his collaborator Francesc de Borja i Moll.
Among other responsibilities, he was the correspondent of the
Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona in Barcelona.
Work
His literary work focused on linguistic research, history, popular customs and folklore collections, various biographies, travel narratives and a novel.
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