Supernumerary Member
Human Sciences: PhD in Philosophy and Humanities
Date of admission: February 12, 2008
Admission speech: “Guillem de Guimerà, friar of the hospital, President of the Generalitat and Grand Prior of Catalonia”
Reply speech: Dr. José E. Ruiz Domènec
Dr. JOSEP MARIA SANS TRAVÉ
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
- Educated at the Universities of Barcelona and Bologna.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Professor at the University of Barcelona and the International University of Catalonia.
- Technical Director of the Historical Archive of Notarial Protocols of Barcelona.
- Director of the National Archive of Catalonia.
- Numerary Member of the Royal Academy of Good Letters of Barcelona and the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED).
- Member of editorial boards and scientific committees of various academic journals and publishing houses.
- Trustee of several Catalan cultural foundations.
- Head of the Archives Service and Director General of Cultural Heritage of the Government of Catalonia.
PUBLICATIONS
- Director of the edition of the Dietaris de la Generalitat de Catalunya (10 volumes, 1994–2007).
- Author of numerous books on the history of the Generalitat, the Catalan Courts, notarial institutions, and the military orders.
- Main works: Dietari o llibre de Jornades de Jaume Safont (1411–1484) (1992); Els templers catalans. De la rosa a la creu (1996); La fi dels templers catalans (2008); El Monestir de Santa Maria de Vallbona. Història, Monaquisme i Art (2010).