Pompeu Fabra i Poch (Catalan pronunciation:[pumˈpɛw ˈfaβɾə]) (Gràcia, Barcelona, 20 February 1868 - Prada de Conflent, 25 December 1948) was a Spanish engineer and grammarian. He was the main author of the normative reform of contemporary Catalan language.
Life
Pompeu Fabra was born in Gràcia, which at that time was still separate from Barcelona, in 1868. He was the last of twelve children born to Josep Fabra i Roca and his wife Carolina Poch i Martí. When Pompeu was six, the family moved to Barcelona.
From a fairly young age Fabra dedicated himself to the study of the Catalan language. Through the journal and publishing house L'Avenç, he participated in a campaign to reform Catalan orthography between 1890-92. He published Tractat d'ortografia catalana with the writer and publisher Jaume Massó i Torrents and Joaquim Casas i Carbó, a famous lawyer and writer, in 1904.
Despite his personal interest in linguistics, Fabra studied industrial engineering in Barcelona and in 1902 accepted a chair of chemistry position at the School of Engineering in Bilbao. During his tenure in Bilbao, Fabra participated actively in the First International Congress of the Catalan Language held in 1906. This event gave him a certain prestige in the field of Catalan linguistics. In 1911, he returned to Barcelona to become a professor (catedràtic) of Catalan — a position created by the diputació (local government) of Barcelona — and a member of the department of philology at the newly created Institut d'Estudis Catalans, of which he would later become president. In 1912 he published his Gramática de la lengua catalana (in Spanish).
Pompeu Fabra University (Catalan:Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF; IPA:[uniβərsiˈtat pumˈpɛw ˈfaβɾə]) is a publicuniversity in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Founded in 1990, it is named after the Catalan philologist Pompeu Fabra. According to Times Higher Education it is one of the 7 fastest-rising young universities in the world.
Organization
UPF offers its studies around three areas of knowledge focused on the human being: the social sciences and humanities, the health and life sciences, and the ITC and communication sciences.
Teaching is organized in seven faculties or schools: Humanities, Health and Life Sciences, Economics, Political and Social Sciences, Communication, Law, Translation and Interpretation, and one polytechnic school.
Research is organized in eight departments: Economics and Business, Law, Political and Social Sciences, Humanities, Experimental Sciences and Health, Information Technologies and Communication, Communication, Translation, Language Sciences; and four university research institutes: University Institute of Culture, Jaume Vicens i Vives University Institute of History, University Institute for Applied Linguistics and the Centre for Neuro-Robotics and Autonomous Systems (N-RAS, founded in 2012).
By Christopher Reive in Barcelona... According to a report commissioned and undertaken by the UniversitatPompeu Fabra in May 2023, Barcelona was set to have a positive economic impact of $2.1b as a direct result from hosting the Cup ... .
Dalmau is a graduate in Political Sciences by UniversitatPompeu Fabra and had been working as the city council manager next to mayor Jaume Collboni since June 2023 ... by Universitat Pompeu Fabra. .
"Potential new treatments could involve using beneficial bacteria and dietary supplementation," said Rafael Maldonado, from the Laboratory of Neuropharmacology-NeuroPhar at the UniversitatPompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain... ....
With this new work, we now have several hundreds," said Pablo Librado, first author of the study, and now Tenured Scientist at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva of Barcelona (IBE), a joint center of the CSIC and the UniversitatPompeu Fabra ...DOI ... ....
Whether it's a friendly smiley face or a cheeky wink, many of us regularly include emoji in our work emails ... In fact, a 2018 study by researchers from UniversitatPompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, found that a whopping six billion emoji are used every day ... .
