Diego Catalán
Diego Catalán (16 September 1928 – 9 April 2008) was a Spanish philologist.
He was the grandson of famed philologist, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, and María Goyri de Menéndez Pidal.
Catalán died of heart disease on 9 April 2008, at the age of 83.
Catalán was the son of Miguel Catalán Sanudo and Jimena Menéndez Pidal, and therefore the grandson of philologist Ramón Menéndez Pidal.
Catalán was primarily a medievalist, he chaired the Ramón Menéndez Pidal Foundation which aims to continue Pidal's work, especially in the field of Hispanic Ballads, editing and study of texts and the history of the Spanish language.
He coordinated a large project, the pan Hispanic ballads, which aimed to collect and preserve texts.
Catalán was the owner of The Ballads Archive which covers materials and work of philological and historical research.
The archive is held by the Ramón Menéndez Pidal Foundation and includes works from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
It is available to scholars for research purposes.
The archive was considered part of the "National Treasure" and, as such, was protected at the headquarters of the League of Nations in Geneva during the Spanish Civil War.
Motherland (disambiguation)
Motherland is the place of one's birth, the place of one's ancestors, or the place of origin of an ethnic group.
Motherland may also refer to:
Place of birth
The place of birth( POB) or birthplace is the place where a person was born.
This place is often used in legal documents, together with name and date of birth, to uniquely identify a person.
As a general rule with respect to passports, the place of birth is determined to be the country that currently has" sovereignty" over the actual place of birth, regardless of when the birth actually occurred.
The place of birth is not necessarily the place where the parents of the new baby live.
If the baby is born in a hospital in another place, that place is the place of birth.
In many countries, this also means that the government requires that the birth of the new baby is registered in the place of birth.
Some countries place less or no importance on the place of birth, instead using alternative geographical characteristics for the purpose of identity documents.
For example, Sweden has used the concept of" födelsehemortdomicile of birth") since 1947.
This means that the domicile of the baby's mother is the registered place of birth.
The location of the maternity ward or other physical birthplace is considered unimportant.
Similarly, Switzerland uses the concept of" Heimatortlieu d'origineluogo d'origineplace of origin" in German, French and Italian respectively).
A child born to Swiss parents is automatically assigned the place of origin of the parent with the same last name, so the child either gets their mother's or father's place of origin.
A child born to one Swiss parent and one foreign parent acquires the place of origin of their Swiss parent.
In a Swiss passport and identity card, the holder's place of origin is stated, not their place of birth.
In some countries( primarily in the Americas), the place of birth automatically determines the nationality of the baby, a practice often referred to by the Latin phrase" jus soli".
Almost all countries outside the Americas instead attribute nationality based on the nationality( ies) of the baby's parents( referred to as" jus sanguinis").
There can be some confusion regarding the place of birth if the birth takes place in an unusual way: when babies are born on an airplane or at sea, difficulties can arise.
The place of birth of such a person depends on the law of the countries involved, which include the nationality of the plane or ship, the nationality( ies) of the parents and/ or the location of the plane or ship( if the birth occurs in the territorial waters or airspace of a country).
Some administrative forms may request the applicant's" country of birth".
It is important to determine from the requester whether the information requested refers to the applicant's" place of birth" or" nationality at birth".
For US citizens born abroad who under the US Constitution acquire US citizenship at the time of birth, the nationality at birth will be USA( American), while the place of birth would be the country in which the actual birth takes place.
Sennedjem
The Ancient Egyptian artisan Sennedjem lived in Set Maat( translated as" The Place of Truth"), contemporary Deir el- Medina, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes, during the reigns of Seti I and Ramesses II.
Sennedjem had the title" Servant in the Place of Truth".
He was buried along with his wife, Iyneferti, and family in a tomb in the village necropolis.
His tomb was discovered January 31, 1886.
When Sennedjem's tomb was found, in it there was regular furniture from his home, including a stool and a bed, which he actually used when he was alive.
His titles included Servant in the Place of Truth, meaning that he worked on the excavation and decoration of the nearby royal tombs.
Dance of Death (disambiguation)
Dance of Death, also called" Danse Macabre", is a late- medieval allegory of the universality of death.
Dance of Death or The Dance of Death may also refer to:
Place of origin
In Switzerland, the place of origin( literally" home place" or" citizen place") denotes where a Swiss citizen has their municipal citizenship.
It is not to be confused with the place of birth or place of residence, although two or all three of these locations may be identical depending on the person's circumstances.
Valley of Death
Valley of Death may refer to:
Where Was I
" Where Was I?" may refer to:
Miguel A. Catalán
Miguel Antonio Catalán Sañudo (1894–1957) was a Spanish spectroscopist.
Born in Zaragoza, he obtained his degree in chemistry from the University of Zaragoza and received his doctorate in Madrid in 1917 for his thesis about spectrochemistry.
In 1920, he began work as a researcher at Imperial College London.
Examining the spectrum of the arc of manganese, he determined that the optical spectra of complex atoms consisted of groups of lines –which he called "multipletes"- between which existed certain characteristic regularities.
Catalán demonstrated that study of the multipletes led to further understanding of the states of energy of atomic electrons.
On the invitation of Arnold Sommerfeld, he worked at the University of Munich, and on the creation by the Rockefeller Foundation of the Institute of Physics and Chemistry (Madrid), in 1930 he was named head of the Spectroscopy Section.
He was invited numerous times to work in the laboratories of the National Bureau of Standards
(Washington, D.C.), Princeton University, and MIT.
He published more than 70 scientific articles in specialized journals.
In 1926, he received a prize from the "Real Academia de Ciencias" (Spain) and in 1930, the international Pelfort prize.
He married Jimena Menéndez Pidal, the daughter of Royal Spanish Academy director Ramón Menéndez Pidal.
Because of the military coup by General Francisco Franco in July 1936, he and his father in law were the subject of numerous misdemeanours.
From 1950 onwards, he served as director of the "Departamento de Espectros del Instituto de Óptica de Madrid" (C.S.I.C.).
In 1952, he served as advisor to the Joint Commission for Spectroscopy, the head body for this field.
In 1954, he became a member of the "Real Academia de Ciencias" (Madrid).
Catalán died in Madrid.
The lunar crater Catalán is named after him.
Based on certain conjectures of Miguel Catalan about rotational dynamics, his disciple and biographer Gabriel Barceló, years later, developed the Theory of Dynamic Interactions.
The Government of the Comunidad de Madrid (Autonomous Region of Madrid) awards the Miguel Catalán Investigation Award in Science since 2005, to honor Catalán's memory.
The award recognizes outstanding life accomplishments in research and science.
The award winners each receive a medal, a citation and 42,000 Euros.
Winners of this award are: José Elguero Bertolini (2005, chemist), Antonio Hernando Grande (2006, physicist), Amable Liñán Martínez (2007, aeronautical engineer), José Luis García Fierro (2008, chemist) and Miguel Francisco Sánchez Madrid (2009, biologist).
Since 2008, a Miguel Catalán Investigation Award in Science for researchers under forty years is also given.
The awards winners also receive a medal, a citation and 21,000 Euros.
50,000 Euros are also given to their institutions to fund their future work.
Winners are: Oscar Fernández Carpetillo (2008, oncologist) and Luis Raúl Sánchez Fernández (2009, physicist).
Beaulieu-sur-Loire
Beaulieu- sur- Loire is a commune in the Loiret department in north -central France.
It is also the place of death of Jacques MacDonald, a French general who served in the Napoleonic Wars

Question: Where was the place of death of Diego Catalán's father?
Answer: Madrid