Manuel Alvar

Manuel Alvar
Born(1923-07-08)8 July 1923
Benicarló (Castellón), Spain
Died13 August 2001(2001-08-13) (aged 78)
Madrid, Spain
Resting placeChinchón, Spain
Education
Occupations
  • Linguist
  • historian
Employers
Known forSpanish dialectologist, Romance language specialist, historian, university professor
Term1988–1991
PredecessorCarlos Clavería
SuccessorArturo Pérez-Reverte
SpouseElena Ezquerra
Children7
Honours
  • Doctor Honoris Causa (University of Granada, University of Valencia, University of Zaragoza, University of Salamanca, University of Sevilla, Universidades Nacional de San Juan, Universidad de Buenos Aires)
  • Honorary Professor (Universidad de San Marcos de Lima, Universidad Austral de Chile)
  • Distinguished Professor (University of California Santa Barbara, State University of New York Albany)
Seat T of the Real Academia Española
In office
7 December 1975 – 13 August 2001
Preceded byCarlos Clavería Lizana [es]
Succeeded byArturo Pérez-Reverte
Director of the Real Academia Española
In office
1 December 1988 – December 1991
Preceded byRafael Lapesa
Succeeded byFernando Lázaro Carreter

Manuel Alvar (July 8, 1923 - August 13, 2001) was a Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor who specialized in the study of dialectology and philology of the Spanish language. Throughout his career, Alvar oversaw and influenced the creation of many Spanish linguistic atlases; maps which recorded speech variations in a given geographical area. He served as Director of the Real Academia Española for four years and was a member of language academies throughout Europe and Latin America.[1]

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