Who broke the news this afternoon, through social networks, was the journalist, novelist and academic of the Language
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
, who has commented to EL MUNDO: "Gregorio Salvador was the last of the great academics, of those who
gave prestige and they made the institution respectable
. I knew him well because we were together on the same committee for 13 years and he was the one who answered me when I entered the Academy. I spoke to him every week and the last time was three days ago. He was at home, he no longer went out But he kept the same humor, the same spirit. "
And Pérez-Reverte adds: "These days he used to say: '
I'm already in extra time, I'm already amortized
. It's just a matter of waiting for the end to read calmly.' And
that's how death found him, reading in an armchair at home
. He was the dean of the academics who were still active and he was attending the sessions until the pandemic prevented him. The Academy was in his blood. "
Don Gregorio, the man, was not only wise but also had grace and a more than broad culture.
Here are his comments on new words or linguistic doubts that were collected in books such as
Noticias del Reino de Cervantes.
Uses and abuses of current Spanish
(2007, Espasa).
In it, for example, he does not hesitate to resort to "María José Suárez, from Coria del Río, brand new Miss Spain".
"She affirms in an interview that she is extroverted in character but not 'extroverted', as some journalist has written, because this word is vulgarity."
The journalist and also academic
Luis María Anson
has told this newspaper: "Gregorio Salvador was a great authority, the favorite son of Manuel Alvar.
There was no one who knew more about lexicography like him. He left the rest impressed. Even so, he was not nothing presumptuous
. He had enormous prestige and was never lacking in the plenary sessions of the Academy. "
Anson also adds a not very well known fact, his passion for soccer, about which he wrote not a few articles collected in
El futbol y la vida
(Grupo Unisón Ediciones), with a foreword by soccer player Miguel Pardeza.
His concern for the language reached even this sport, as the one who was a member of the Quinta del Buitre writes in the prologue to the book: "It is a volume that
deals with football and the goring that is inflicted on the language
on stations and televisions, but also of how these two worlds are related to each other, and how a linguist does it in particular who does not experience any embarrassment from going from dialect varieties to the fortunes and misadventures of a Champions League match or of any of Madrid- Barcelona of each season ".
Gregorio Salvador, who died today at his home at the age of 93, was a philologist, dialectologist and literary critic and a world reference in lexicology.
He was deputy director of the Royal Academy of the Language (RAE) from 2000 to 2007, where he
held the letter q
since February 1987. In the Docta Casa he also served as a librarian and was present at the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (Asale ) between 1992 and 1998.
Doctor in Romance Philology, he was professor of Spanish Language at the Autonomous and Complutense Universities of Madrid and of Historical Grammar in those of La Laguna (Tenerife) and Granada.
He was also an
honorary doctorate
from several Spanish universities, according to Efe.
Darío Villanueva, former director of the RAE
, emphasizes that he was "one of the most dedicated and hard-working academics. I appreciated his
courage when it came to defending just linguistic causes. He got into controversial issues a lot
. He never put himself on the profile. good pen and literary whims, "he added to this newspaper.
Gregorio Salvador was an honorary member of the Association of Hispanists of Asia, of the Madrid Press Association, a correspondent of the National Academy of Letters of Uruguay, of the Chilean Academy of Language, of the Argentine Academy of Letters and of the Honduran Academy of the Language.
In addition, he was an honorary academic of the Colombian Academy of the Language and the Nicaraguan Academy of the Language and president of the Spanish Society of Linguistics (1990-1994).
Among his books, it is worth highlighting the
Spanish language and languages of Spain
,
Linguistic policy and common sense
,
A world with books
,
Being to which it jumps
,
The educational destruction
and the aforementioned
Noticias del Reino de Cervantes
and
Football and life
.
He also published the novel
The axis of the compass
and the collections of short stories
Coincidences
and
London Night and other stories
.
He received several journalistic awards, such as the Mariano de Cavia, the González-Ruano, the Mesonero Romanos and the José María Pemán.
He also received the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X el Sabio (1999) and the Medal of Andalusia (2010).
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