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).