He was the organizer of the First International Congress on the Catalan Language. In 1911, he was appointed as president of the Language Section of the Institute for Catalan Studies, but disagreements with Pompeu Fabra and other members would cause him to break with the organization.

When he was 15 he went to Palma in order to study at the Seminary of the Diocese. In 1888 he became professor of church history at the Seminary. All through the years, he was in touch with the most important literary personalities of the time.

With the goal of publishing a dictionary that contained every word in the Catalan language, old and new, he traveled everywhere where Catalan is spoken. In 1926 he published, with the help of Francesc de Borja Moll, the first volume of the Diccionari català-valencià-balear, a unique creation in Europe to this day.

Alòs-Moner was a scholar, librarian, and a historian. He is considered one of the most preeminent personalities instrumental in providing official support for the Catalan culture.

He received an undergraduate degree in liberal arts at the Barcelona University. In 1906 he organized an exhibit on Catalan literature at the First International Congress on the Catalan Language. The following year he became secretary and editor at the Institute for Catalan Studies. Thanks to a scholarship he received in 1911, he went to Rome in order to further his studies on the humanities.

In 1914, he was appointed associate professor at the Library of Catalonia and, three years later, professor at the School of Librarians. When Eugeni d’Ors stepped down as president of the Institute for Catalan Studies (1920), he took over until his death.

He was an engineer, politician, and university professor. Starting in 1914, he was in charge of public services for the Mancomunitat of Catalonia, a job that he coordinated with teaching at the Agricultural School, the Technical School in Barcelona, and the School of Librarians.

In 1917, he was appointed as principal of the Vocational School, which allowed him to promote it as an active center for popular culture. Five years later he would become secretary general of technical and vocational education for the Mancomunitat. With the arrival of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship (1923), he resigned from all his public offices and created the company Indústria de Coure-Electrolític.

His main written works include Sobre los fundamentos de la termodinámica (Thermodynamics fundamentals) (1914), El socialisme i el problema de Catalunya (Socialism and Catalonia’s problem) (1923), and Manual pràctic del socialisme català (Practical manual of Catalan socialism) (1933).

He was a politician, lawyer, economist, writer, and journalist. He was a founding member of the History and Archaeology Department and the Science Department of the Institute for Catalan Studies, and he was president of the Barcelona Ateneu (1928-1930).

He received a law degree from Barcelona University, and starting the following year, in 1895, he worked as an editor for the journal L’avenç. Due to his association with anarchists, in 1896 he was arrested and charged, and later sentenced to eight years in prison during the Montjuïc trial. In spite of this, the Spanish authorities sent him into exile to France in 1897. In 1901, he was pardoned by Sagasta’s government.

During Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship he focused on writing, but during the Second Spanish Republic he came back into active politics. Francesc Macià asked him to help write the Statute of Núria, and in 1933 he was appointed Secretary of Justice. At the end of the Spanish civil war, he went into exile in Buenos Aires with the rest of his family.

He was a linguist and a chemical engineer. He is considered the father of modern Catalan. Author of Gramática de la lengua catalana (Grammar of the Catalan Language) (1912) and promoter of the Normes ortogràfiques (Orthographic Rules) (1913). His Diccionari ortogràfic (Orthographical Dictionary) (1917) was an addition to the rules of 1913.

In 1932 he became a tenured professor of Catalan Language at the University of Barcelona, and, one year later, he became president of the board of the newly founded Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His Diccionari de la llengua catalana (Dictionary of the Catalan Language) (1932) was a sort of preliminary work in preparation of the future Dictionary of the Institute for Catalan Studies.

On January 31, 1939, five days after the fascist troops entered Barcelona, he crossed over to France. His long journey took him to Paris, Montpeller, and Perpinyà, and it ended in Prada de Conflent, where he died. Between September 14, 1945, and January 22, 1948 he was a secretary of the Catalan Government in exile.

He was a Catalan physician and politician, and professor at the Barcelona University School of Medicine. He was one of the founders of Unió Regionalista (Regionalist Union) (1900), and of the Regionalist League (1901), and also one of the founding members of the Institute for Catalan Studies Science Department (1911).

In 1882 he received his M.D. from Barcelona University. Years later he would act as director of the Anatomy Museum at the Barcelona School of Medicine. He founded three gynecological clinics in Barcelona, and his experiences there would later be reflected in his book Tratado de Ginecología (Gynecology Treatise) (1903). He was the first doctor to perform a cesarean operation in Catalonia (1910).

As a politician, he was mostly active in public health and teaching medicine. When the Mancomunitat was established, he was appointed health councilor. His most important project was the renovation of the Childbirth House, which was halted due to his death.

He was a historian, art critic, and museologist. He was instrumental in his defense, study, and dissemination of Catalonia’s legacy. Through his writings he was very influential in the artistic philosophy behind Noucentisme.

During his time as director of Art Museums and secretary of the Museums Association, he oversaw the meticulous removal of romanesque frescoes, a crucial part of the current collections at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia.

During Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship, he was stripped of his job and sentenced by the Civil Servant Purging Tribunal to 12 years in jail, for an alleged crime of aiding armed rebellion.

He was a meteorologist, astronomer, and seismologist. He was the founder and director of Catalonia’s Meteorological Service (1921-1939). He was a doctor in Physical Sciences, and his dissertation was on astronomy.

Starting in 1893, he was in charge of the observatories of the Barcelona Art and Sciences Academy. He organized and was president of the Official Time Service, that set Barcelona’s official time. When he was in charge of the Experimental Observatory of the Diputació of Barcelona, he proposed a project that would eventually evolve into the Fabra Observatory.

With the help of the Institute for Catalan Studies he created the Barcelona Wind Station. He was also president of the Ateneu of Barcelona, the Barcelona Astronomical Society, and the Science Department at the IEC.

He was an educator, a linguist, and historian. In 1915 he became a civil servant at the Council for Educational Research, which would be known later on as the Education Council, of which he was the secretary from 1916 to 1923.

He was the Technical School general manager (1917), he directed education studies of the Mancomunitat (1920) and the Montessori School (1922). He published articles in Quaderns d’Estudi and was president of the technical commission of the Pro-Catalan Schooling Association.

In 1924 he stopped working as a civil servant, and, together with a group of teachers and students from the former Montessori School, he founded the Blanquerna School Cooperative, which experimented with new methods of active schooling.

She was the first tenured professor at the School of Librarians, beginning in the school year 1919-1920. When she began teaching, she was in charge of putting together a curriculum preparatory class, which went back to 1919. This seminar included general culture subjects and it was meant to prepare students for the school’s admission test.

In 1913 she received her high school diploma. The next year she started studying at the Liberal Arts School, which she graduated from on June, 1915. Lois fought for a woman’s right to be in government and to work.

He was an architect who was instrumental in the restoration of monuments. In 1903 he received a degree in architecture, and during his first years as an architect, he worked on new construction with strong Modernist influences.

In 1915, he became director of the Monument Conservation Service. Starting in 1929, he also held the position of curator of monuments at the Spanish Public Works Ministry.

These two positions allowed him to participate in the restoration of monuments such as the Casa dels Canonges, the Roman bridge in Martorell, the walls of Montblanc, and the monasteries in Poblet, Sant Cugat del Vallès, and Sant Pere de Rodes.

He was a publisher and a writer. He was the founder and director of the journal L’Avenç. He was a founding member of the Institute for Catalan Studies, controller of the LIbrary of Catalonia, and professor of the School of Librarians.

He is considered one of the champions in the transformation of Catalan culture from the end of the 19th century to the early 20th century. Between 1915 and 1927, he was the president of the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya (Catalonia’s Outdoor Club) and the Ateneu of Barcelona. He was also a member of the technical committee that organized the First International Congress of the Catalan Language (1906).

She was the creator of the renowned educational method by the same name that has spread all over the world. With this system, children have a space adapted to their needs where they can spend all day watched over by a caretaker. Parents can go inside the school and keep an eye on their children’s activities, as long as they do not interfere with the method’s philosophy.

In spite of her success, she never stopped trying to expand it. She gave conferences and informational seminars in all the main cities of Europe, America, and Asia.

When she was 26, Montessori became the first Italian woman to receive a medical degree. She also started working at the University of Rome as an assistant in the psychiatric clinic. Although she was first and foremost a doctor, over the years she was mostly active in the field of pedagogy.

He was a doctor in law, and in liberal arts. He collaborated with La Renaixença, El Poble Català, and other periodicals. He was appointed director of Public Education (1917), but he was removed from this post three years later due to disagreements with Puig i Cadafalch, president of the Mancomunitat of Catalonia.

Under the alias ‘Xènius’, he wrote articles in a poignant, learned, and concise style. They are mostly critical with the Catalonia of the modernist period, which had little ambition and some pessimism, but they also praise the emergent Catalonia of the early 1900’s which had a more European outlook.

After he was removed from Catalan politics, he started writing in Spanish, and in 1923, he relocated to Madrid. During the civil war he became a member of the Falange Española (fascist party) and was appointed head of the Spanish Fine Arts Office. Because of all this, he is seen in Catalonia as a traitor to his own heritage, and a fascist.

He was a physiologist and politician, son of of Jaume Pi i Sunyer, and brother of Carles Pi i Sunyer and Santiago Pi i Sunyer. In 1920 he became the director of the School of Physiology of the Mancomunitat, where he conducted world-class research.

He was a professor of physiology by the universities of Sevilla and Barcelona, and in 1912 he founded the Catalan Society of Biology in the Institute for Catalan Studies. He also became the president of the Barcelona Royal Academy of Medicine, and editor of  the publication Treballs de la Societat de Biologia (Papers of the Biology Society).

He was one of the founders of Unió Federal Nacionalista Republicana (Federal Nationalist Republican Union). In 1918, he became representative for Figueres in the Spanish government. In 1923 he resigned from his post because of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship. When the Spanish Civil War began, he went into exile to Paris, and from there he went to Venezuela. In 1945, he founded and presided the Catalan Center in Caracas. In 1963 he left for Mexico, where he would die one year later.

He had degrees in Literature and Architecture. He was at professor at the Catalan University. He was the secretary of the First International Congress of the Catalan Language (1906)and of of Institute for Catalan Studies (1907).

From 1903 to 1904, he went to Italy, where he got acquainted with the great works of the Renaissance, and became interested in the survival of Catalan culture in the south of Italy. He was also involved in restoring and transporting scattered romanesque and gothic works to the Barcelona Art Museum.

In 1913 he moved to Toronto, where he would work as an architect and teach Spanish at the university. He was professor of Art HIstory in California (1921-1929), and, later on, in Chicago, New York, and Geneva.

He was the president of the Institute for Catalan Studies (1907-1915), vice-president of the International Congress of the Catalan Language (1906), and president of the Jocs Florals of Barcelona (Barcelona’s poetry main contest) (1907). He was one of the promoters of Catalan University Studies and full member of the Catalan Royal Fine Arts Academy of Sant Jordi.

In 1878 he got his Ph. D. in Madrid, and two years later he was appointed assistant professor of the Language School at the Barcelona University. In 1885 he became Literature professor at the Barcelona University, and applied to, and won, the post left vacant by Milà i Fontanals.

He was a strong defender of Greece’s territorial claims over several regions occupied by the Turks. So, he wrote a manifesto in support of the Greek cause, inspired by Prat de la Riba.

He was a linguist, professor, and historian of Catalan literature. He was the first director of the Library of Catalonia (1914), and organized the People’s Libraries network, which was founded one year later. In the same year, he became Catalan literature professor, book studies, and library technologies at the Librarian School, of which he was president between 1930 and 1939.

With the onset of the Spanish Civil War, he decided to transfer the entire collection of the Library of Catalonia from the Palace of the Generalitat to the old Hospital of Santa Creu, thus preserving the invaluable book collection contained in this library. At the end of the war, he was purged by the fascist authorities, stripped of pay and rank, and forbidden from ever teaching again or from holding a civil servant position, so he devoted himself to research.

During his trajectory, he published a series of manuals on library technology, such as Classificació decimal de Brussel.les: adaptació per a les biblioteques populars de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya (Brussels Decimal Classification at the People’s Libraries of the Mancomunitat of Catalonia) (1920).

He was the last president of the Mancomunitat of Catalonia. He was the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Terrassa (1891-1896), and founder of the Textile Engineers School in Terrassa (1902). He helped organize the party Unión Monárquica Nacional (Spanish Monarchic Union) as a movement in favor of the monarchy and against Catalan nationalism, which did not do well at all at the polls.

On January 1924, he was elected president of the Mancomunitat by an assembly of deputies chosen by the dictator Primo de Rivera. With no Catalan nationalists to oppose him, he tried to achieve the decentralization that the former governments of the Mancomunitat were not able to implement.

He enacted a series of changes to a project initiated by the Mancomunitat and the Diputació of Barcelona. As a consequence, some one hundred teachers and civil servants who did not agree with the new policies were removed from their posts on June 1924. This would have negative effects on many technical schools of the Mancomunitat.

He resigned in 1925 when Primo de Rivera decided to suspend the activities of the Mancomunitat of Catalonia.

She was an educator who contributed to the expansion of Catalonia’s public school system in the early 20th century.

She studied Education in Barcelona and at the School of Education in Madrid. She went to Geneva to further her studies and decided to get better acquainted with the Educational systems being used in Europe at the time.

In 1921, she was put in charge of creating the curriculum for the Women’s School and Library. She also gave seminars and conferences at the Education School of the Mancomunitat, at the summer schools, and at the same school.

From 1914 to 1930, she was the principal of the female section at the Escola del Bosc. Later on, she was also principal at the Milà i Fontanals School of the School Cooperative, until 1939, when she was forced to retire.

He was a doctor in Mathematics and in Physical Sciences, a civil and industrial engineer. He taught for a long time, and was a founding member of the Science Department of the Institute for Catalan Studies.

In 1916, he earned the right to be director of the Telephone Section of the Mancomunitat, which tried to provide telephone service all over Catalonia.

In 1918, he was elected to lead the Local Railroad Section, which tried to decentralize transportation, but he was unable to accomplish this due to Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship in 1923.

He was also appointed the director of Railroad Works of the Mancomunitat, and, during the last years of the institution (1923-1925), he directed and planned the construction of the Cross-city Railroad System of Barcelona.