(València 1911 – 1981)

Obtaining both a Bachelor of Law and Arts, Manuel Sanchis Guarner studied in the Universities of Valencia and Madrid. He furthered his education in the Centro de Estudios Históricos de Madrid [Madrid’s Centre for Historical Studies], under the guidance of philologists Ramón Menéndez Pidal and Navarro Tomás.  He collaborated as a surveyor in the Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica [Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula], travelling the Catalan Countries to carry out the surveys needed for the Catalan section of the work. He lived in Majorca from 1943 to 1959, where he devoted himself to his scientific work and language classes, as well as collaborating in the drafting of the Diccionari Català-valencià-balear, alongside Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll. After carrying out his final surveys for the Atlas, he commenced work on the publication of his great dialectological work (the first volume was presented at the Congress of Romance Linguistics in Strasbourg in 1962). In the seventies, he joined the university of Valencia as a professor of the Valencian language, and in 1979 he was promoted to senior lecturer in Valencian linguistics. He attended many international congresses and devoted himself to writing. He was an associate member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans and the Centre de Cultura Valenciana, as well as a member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, a "Master" of the Escola Lul·lística de Mallorca and collaborator of the Spanish High Council for Scientific Research.

Escriptors: M. Sanchis Guarner