Joan Bastardas i Parera

Joan Bastardas i Parera (1919[1]–31 Januar 2009[2]) was a Spanish Latinist and Romance philologist born in Barcelona.

He was first appointed lecturer, then assistant (1967), and finally obtained a chair in Latin Philology (1976) at the University of Barcelona.

He was director (1960-1985) of the Glossarium Mediae Latinitatis Cataloniae, a dictionary of the Medieval Latin of Catalonia, a research project which is part of the global project Novum Glossarium Mediae Latinitatis of the Union Académique Internationale.

He was a member of the Fundació Bernat Metge committee, which publishes a series of Greek and Latin authors with a Catalan translation.

In 1972 he was elected a member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans,[3] where he was also vice-president (1983-1986) and director of the "Lexicographic Office".