Max Cahner
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| name = Max Cahner i Garcia
| image = Max Cahner.jpg|caption = Cahner in 2012
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1936|12|3}}
| birth_place = Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2013|10|14|1936|12|3}}
| death_place = Barcelona
| known_for = politician and historian of Catalan literature
| nationality = Spanish|awards = Catalonia Cross of St. George in 1996
Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia, 2013 (posthumous)
| party = Democratic Convergence of Catalonia
}}
Max Cahner i Garcia (3 December 1936 – 14 October 2013) was a Catalan politician, and editor and historian of Catalan literature.{{Cite book|title = Servir Catalunya: homenatge als 70 anys de Max Cahner|last = Pujadas|first = John|publisher = The Abbey of Montserrat|year = 2007|isbn = 978-848415-909-4|pages = 229–250|chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_90zzCgj-lsC&pg=PA229|chapter = Biographical notes by Max Cahner|language = ca|trans-title=Serving Catalonia: A tribute to 70 years of Max Cahner}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.revistadecatalunya.cat/ca/max-cahner.asp|title = Max Cahner|language = ca|website = Història de la Revista de Catalunya|access-date = 2013-12-22}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20131014/54391037589/muere-max-cahner.html|title = Muere Max Cahner|date = 2013-10-14|access-date = 2013-12-22|website = LaVanguardia.com|language = ca}}
Career
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.
References
External links
- [http://www.enciclopedia.cat/enciclop%C3%A8dies/gran-enciclop%C3%A8dia-catalana/EC-GEC-0013329.xml#.Urc0emRDuTM Entry for Max Cahner i Garcia] in the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana
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Category:Writers from Catalonia
Category:Culture ministers of Catalonia
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