Antoni Pous (1932-1976)

Abstract

Antoni Pous, an exemplary intellectual in the double sense of the word, was one of the first to teach Catalan at German-speaking universities after the Second World War. Having been a seminarian in the Plana de Vic, he was trained and promoted in his literary interests by Carles Riba, and shortly before his untimely death he translated poems by Paul Celan into Catalan. He was a teacher who knew how to give his students a passionate and politically committed view of his country.