Ramón Lorenzo Vázquez

Ramón Lorenzo Vázquez (Ames, 1935) has been Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Valladolid (1973-1977) and of Spanish Historical Grammar (1977-1981) and Galician Language and Literature (1981-2002) at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, where he was head of the Department of Spanish Language (1977-1981) and the Department of Galician Philology (1981-1988).

He has been part of ILG since it was founded. He has been general editor of Verba. Anuario Galego de Filoloxía, was a leading figure in the creative writing journal Dorna (of which he is general editor), and has supervised research projects such as PATROM (Patronymica Romanica) and the Dictionnaire historique des noms de famille romans. He organised two symposia (Proceedings 1982, 1988) and the 19^th International Congress of Romance Linguistics and Philology (Proceedings, 8 vols., 1992-1997).

His numerous articles and publications mostly concern philological research (text editing, lexicography, literature, history or historical grammar of the language). They include editions of the Crónica Xeral and the Crónica de Castilla (1975, 1977), the Crónica Troiana (1985) and the Miragres de Santiago (2004). He has translated works by German authors into both Spanish and Galician.

He was one of the founders of the literary group Brais Pinto (1958). As a literary author, his book of poetry O que se foi perdendo (1959) is worthy of mention.

Lorenzo Vázquez is a member of several scholarly associations. He has been an honorary member of the Associação Portuguesa de Linguística since 1989, and the Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval since 1985. He has been a full member of the Real Academia Galega since 1999, of which he first became a member in 1981. He received the Galician Award for Research in 2004, the Lois Peña Novo award in 2010, the Trasalba award in 2011, and was designated as an Illustrious Galician in 2009.

The following Festschrifts paid homage to Ramón Lorenzo in 1998, 2005 and 2011 respectively: Homenaxe a Ramón Lorenzo, As tebras alumeadas. Estudos filolóxicos ofrecidos en homenaxe a Ramón Lorenzo and Ramón Lorenzo, señor das palabras.