Photo: Generalitat de Catalunya, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons²¹

Max Cahner

Spanish writer and politician (1936-2013)¹

Max Cahner i Garcia (3 December 1936 – 14 October 2013) was a Catalan politician, and editor and historian of Catalan literature.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Max Cahner (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Dec 3, 1936, died Oct 14, 2013.¹

Companies

Curial Edicions CatalanesFounder¹⁹
Edicions 62Founder²⁰

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Barcelona^{3 4}
Date not recordedInstitució Cultural del Centre d’Influència Catòlica³

Career

Occupation: literary historian, businessperson, university teacher, writer, editor, literary scholar, politician, historian.¹²

1994 to 1997Chair, Acció Catalana¹¹
1988 to 1992Member of the Parliament of Catalonia¹⁰
1980 to 1984Minister of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia¹⁰
Date not recordedWorked at University of Barcelona^{4 5}
Date not recordedFounded Curial Edicions Catalanes⁶
Date not recordedFounded Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana⁷
Date not recordedFounded Edicions 62⁸
Date not recordedChief executive, Revista de Catalunya⁹

Cahner was born in Bad Godesberg, now a municipal district of Bonn, Germany, to a Jewish-Catalan father and a Catalan mother who had left during the Spanish Civil War. The Cahner family moved to Galicia in 1937 to avoid persecution from the rise of National Socialism, and then to Barcelona in 1939. He enrolled at the University of Barcelona in 1952 studying chemistry.

Via Ramon Bastardes, Cahner was introduced to and began working on Serra d'Or, an influential Catalan magazine published by Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey. In 1964, he was expelled from Francoist Spain for his Catalan nationalist activity. From exile he continued he work on Catalan literature.

In 1980, Cahner was appointed the Minister of Culture in the Generalitat de Catalunya under Jordi Pujol, where he served for four years until 1984, when Joan Rigol took his place.

In 1986, Cahner joined the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia, where he led the party's cultural work, and was elected as an MP in the 1988 elections.

He died, aged 76, in 2013, and was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

From Wikipedia’s article on Max Cahner (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Personal life

BornDec 3, 1936, Bad Godesberg^{4 13}
DiedOct 14, 2013, Barcelona¹⁴
CitizenshipSpain¹⁵
ResidenceSant Vicenç de Montalt^{4 16}

Awards

2013Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia¹⁷
1996Saint George's Cross^{17 18}

Sources

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WikidataMax Cahner on Wikidata
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WikipediaMax Cahner on Wikipedia
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WikidataMax Cahner: education, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: Worked at University of Barcelona, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: Founded Curial Edicions Catalanes, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: Founded Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: Founded Edicions 62, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: Chief executive, Revista de Catalunya, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: Minister of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: Chair, Acció Catalana, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: occupation, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: place of birth, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: place of death, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: citizenship, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: residence, on Wikidata
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WikidataMax Cahner: award, on Wikidata
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Wikidataaward, as reported
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WikidataCurial Edicions Catalanes, Founder
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WikidataEdicions 62, Founder
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Wikimedia CommonsMax Cahner photo by Generalitat de Catalunya, Attribution