2023-06-08 20:03:57
The Plenary Session of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) has chosen the philologist Pedro Garcia Chair (Las Gabias, Granada, 1954) new member of the institution. Chair will occupy the chair A, vacant since the death of Manuel Seco Reymundo on December 16, 2021; his candidacy was presented by academics Francisco Rico, Inés Fernández-Ordóñez and Juan Gil.
Pedro Manuel Cátedra García was born in the Granada town of Gabia Grande on March 29, 1954. He completed his high school studies in Jaén and Tarrasa (Barcelona). As a research fellow, he received his BS and PhD in Spanish philology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he also began his teaching work between 1976 and 1986. He has been a university professor at Salamanca since 1987.
has been too visiting professor and researcher in universities in Europe and America —for example, Rome-La Sapienza, Parma, Paris-Sorbonne, Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Cologne, Münster, London, Oxford, Berkeley, Columbia or Pennsylvania—, and lecturer in many other academic and scientific organizations .
He has directed or directs research centers, such as the Institute for the History of Books and Reading (since 1997), the CiLengua Hispanic Library Institute (2005-2011), the Seminary of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SEMYR) (since 1995) or the University Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Digital Humanities of the University of Salamanca ( since 2013).
He has been a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences since 1992; since 2001, of the British Academy, and, since 2008, correspondent of the Royal Academy of Good Letters of Barcelona. He has been incorporated honorarily or as a full member of other organizations belonging to national and foreign institutions.
His own research activity has focused on the literary history of the Middle Ages and humanism and the Renaissance, from the 16th century and with incursions into the Baroque, and up to the 19th century inclusive. Simultaneously, he has carried out extensive work on the history of books, reading and written culture, as well as the dissemination and reception of written and oral texts in the aforementioned periods and also in the 18th century, especially in the sphere of Spanish and Italian typography. In his bibliography there are more than 250 monographs.
Some have been awarded prestigious awards of national and foreign research, including Menéndez Pelayo 1992 from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans; the Alexander von Humboldt Prize (Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany) in 1999; the bibliographic research Bartolomé José Gallardo 2000; the Letters and Humanities award for the CiLengua project (2007), or the María de Maeztu award from the University of Salamanca for scientific excellence (2008). And he has also obtained others of a professional nature for his editorial work, including the National Publishing Award, best printed book category (1991), or the National Publishing Award, best technical and erudition book category (1991). granted by the Spanish Library of the XV century.
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