Germà Colón i Doménech (30 November 1928 – 22 March 2020)[1] was a Spanish philologist of Romance philology and Catalan lexicology.
Born on 30 November 1928 in Castellón de la Plana, Colón studied romance philology in the University of Barcelona with noted philologists such as Antoni Maria Badia i Margarit and Martí de Riquer, before graduating in 1951.
Afterwards he got a grant and went to Leuven and Zurich, where he met some of the most prestigious European romanists, such as dialectologist Sever Pop (1901–1961), author of La dialectologie.
[2] The Swiss philologist Walther von Wartburg proposed him as a lecturer of Spanish in the University of Basel, where he remained.
He joined as a member of the consultant board of the Els Nostres Clàssics collection and the editorial staff of the magazine Estudis de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes.