Santos del día
- Sant Desideri, sant Joan Baptista de Rossi
Enric Moreu-Rey
(Barcelona 1917 – 1992)
An erudite professor, Enric Moreu-Rey founded the Societat d’Onomàstica in 1980, and was its secretary general and leading advocate throughout the years that he led it. In his younger years, he was director of the Teatre Universitari de Catalunya (1934). During the civil war, he joined the Republican front voluntarily and went on to complete his studies in Tolosa (Lenguadoc) and Barcelona, where he obtained his doctorate of Arts. He was a professor at the Instituto Francés de Barcelona [French Institute of Barcelona] and the University of Barcelona in the departments of French and Catalan. His works are very varied, and include: Sartine, un barceloní a la cort de Maria Antonieta (1955), El naixement del metre (1956), Els immigrants francesos a Barcelona (1959), El pro i els contra dels Borja (1958), Revolució a Barcelona el 1789 (1968) and Memorial de Greuges de 1760 (1968). He specialised in the eighteenth century, which is demonstrated well in his work El pensament il·lustrat a Catalunya (1967). One of his greatest contributions was in the field of toponomastics, with books such as La rodalia de Caldes de Montbuí (1961), Els noms de lloc. Introducció a la toponímia (1966), Toponímia Catalana. Assaig de bibliografia (1975), Renoms, motius, malnoms i noms de casa (1981), Els nostres noms de lloc (1982), and the unpublished thesis on Saint Martin in Catalonia.
