2023-06-08 21:08:57
The plenary session of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) chose this Thursday the philologist Pedro Cátedra García (Las Gabias, Granada, March 29, 1954) to occupy the ‘A’ chair, vacant since the death of Manuel Seco in December 2021. Pedro Cátedra’s candidacy was presented by academics Francisco Rico, Inés Fernández-Ordóñez and Juan Gil.
Pedro Manuel Cátedra García studied high school in Jaén and in Tarrasa (Barcelona). As a research fellow, he graduated and later received a doctorate in Hispanic Philology -in both degrees with an extraordinary prize- at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he also began his teaching work as a professor between 1976 and 1986.
The new language academic has been a university professor in Salamanca since 1987, and there he has completed the highest scientific and academic administrative recognitions. He has also been a visiting professor and researcher at universities in Europe and America.
Pedro Cátedra is director of the Institute for the History of Books and Reading, the Seminar on Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the University Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Digital Humanities at the University of Salamanca. He is also a member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, the British Academy and correspondent of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona.
Specialties and awards
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 forays into the Baroque. In his bibliography there are more than 250 monographs and he has also dedicated himself to the scientific edition of other people’s research works.
Among other distinctions, the new Language academic has been recognized with the 1992 Menéndez Pelayo prize from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans; the National Publishing Awards, in the print category and for the best technical erudition book in 1991, the Letters and Humanities award for the CiLengua 2007 project, or the María de Maeztu award from the University of Salamanca for scientific excellence (2008).
#philologist #Pedro #Cátedra #García #chosen #academic #Language