Josep Massot
{{Short description|Spanish historian, Roman Catholic monk and philologist (1941–2022)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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|name = Josep Massot
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|caption = Massot in 2018
|birth_name = Josep Massot i Muntaner
|birth_date = {{birth date|1941|11|03|df=y}}
|birth_place = Palma de Mallorca, Spain
|death_date = {{death date and age|2022|04|24|1941|11|03|df=y}}
|death_place =
|occupation = Historian, Roman Catholic monk, philologist
|alma mater = University of Barcelona
}}
Josep Massot i Muntaner (3 November 1941 – 24 April 2022) was a Spanish historian, Roman Catholic monk and philologist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ccma.cat/324/mor-josep-massot-i-muntaner-filoleg-historiador-i-activista-de-la-cultura-catalana/noticia/3159936/|title=Josep Massot i Muntaner, philologist, historian and activist of Catalan culture, dies|date=24 April 2022|access-date=24 April 2022|language=Catalan}}
Biography
Massot was born in Palma de Mallorca. He studied Romance philology at the University of Barcelona with literary historian Martí de Riquer i Morera and Joan Petit.{{Cite web|url=https://www.escriptors.cat/autors/massotj/pagina.php?id_sec=353|title=Josep Massot i Muntaner: "The cultural infrastructure that has cost so much to build over decades of hard work is being undoed and I do not know how we will get through it."|work=Òmnium Cultural|first1=Antoni|last1=Roca|first2=Maria|last2=Deyà|access-date=24 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922063610/https://www.escriptors.cat/autors/massotj/pagina.php?id_sec=353|archive-date=22 September 2018|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine|language=Catalan}} Massot graduated from the University of Barcelona in 1963.
Massot attended the Catalan University Studies of the Institute for Catalan Studies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eltemps.cat/article/15814/entrevista-josep-massot|title=Father Massot: "Joan Fuster is an unrepeatable character"|work=El Temps|first=Xavier|last=Puig i Sedano|date=20 December 2021|access-date=24 April 2022|language=Catalan}} He worked as a teacher at the University of Barcelona from 1970 to 1983, and was then appointed secretary of the International Association of Catalan Language and Literature. Massot was also the director of the Diccionari de Literatura Catalana from 1977 to 1979.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hzghLXO9zDIC&pg=PA175|title=History of the Institute of Catalan Studies, Edition 57|page=175|first1=Albert|last1=Balcells|first2=Enric|last2=Pujol|publisher=Institut d'Estudis Catalans|date=2002|isbn=9788472836563|via=Google Books}}
Massot entered the Benedictines of the Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey in 1962, and was ordained as a priest in 1972. He was the director of Publications for the Abbey of Montserrat. He was the curator of a collection of popular songs of Catalonia. He won the Francesc de Borja Moll i Casasnovas prize, and was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of the Balearic Islands and the University of Valencia.{{Cite journal|url=https://raco.cat/index.php/Estudis/article/view/237440/319700|title=Josep Massot, Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of the Balearic Islands|journal=Estudis Romànics|date=18 June 1999|volume=23|pages=370–371|access-date=24 April 2022|language=Catalan|last1=Clar|first1=Joan Veny i.}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.uv.es/uvweb/universitat/ca/llista-noticies/universitat-investeix-doctors-honoris-causa-sociologa-saskia-sassen-filoleg-josep-massot-1285846070123/Noticia.html?id=1285963339028|title=The University invests as doctors 'honoris causa' the sociologist Saskia Sassen and the philologist Josep Massot|work=University of Valencia|access-date=24 April 2022|language=Catalan}}
File:Josep Massot, amb la Medalla d'Honor de la Xarxa Vives d'Universitats.jpg
Massot served as a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona from 2002. He was awarded the National Prize for Popular Culture by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1997. Massot was also honored with the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/3997683/20120326/josep-massot-muntaner-premi-dhonor-lletres-catalanes.html|title=Josep Massot i Muntaner, Honorary Award for Catalan Letters|work=VilaWeb|date=26 March 2012|access-date=24 April 2022|language=Catalan}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ccma.cat/324/el-pare-massot-defensa-la-llengua-catalana-en-rebre-el-premi-dhonor-de-les-lletres-catalanes/noticia/1763732/|title=Father Massot defends the Catalan language upon receiving the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes|date=13 June 2012|access-date=24 April 2022|language=Catalan}} In 2018, he was the honored with the Medal of Honor of the Xarxa Vive d'Universitats from the Xarxa Vives d'Universitats.{{Cite web|url=https://www.diaridegirona.cat/fets-gent/2018/07/14/josep-massot-i-manuel-lladonosa-48919526.html|title=Josep Massot and Manuel Lladonosa, medals of honor of the Vives Network|work=Diari de Girona|date=14 July 2018|access-date=24 April 2022|language=Catalan}} In 2019, Massot was honored with the Gold Medal of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands.{{Cite web|url=https://www.arabalears.cat/societat/govern-medalla-llevant-mallorca-muntaner_1_2691774.html|title=The Government awards the Gold Medal to the solidarity movement with the Levante of Mallorca and Josep Massot i Muntaner|work=AraBalears|date=15 February 2019|access-date=24 April 2022|language=Catalan}} He was also honored with the Creu de Sant Jordi.DECRET 174/1996, de 30 d'abril, de concessió de les Creus de Sant Jordi de la Generalitat de Catalunya
File:50 anys Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes 181110 0316 dc (30918833807).jpg and Jaume Cabré in 2018]]
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