Joan Vernet i Ginés (1923-2011). In memoriam

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Joan Vernet i Ginés was born in Barcelona in 1923 and died there on the 23rd of July 2011. He had a PhD in Philosophy and Humanities (Madrid, 1948), was a Full Professor at the University of Barcelona since 1954 and an Emeritus Professor since his retirement in 1988. He was a full number of the Academy of Belles-Lettres of Barcelona (1959), the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences of Paris (1960), the Scientific Council of the Spanish National Research Council (1978), the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (1978), the Royal Academy of History (1981), the Royal Asiatic Society of London (1986) and the Société Asiatique of Paris (1991), and a corresponding member of the Academy of Science of Madrid (1981), the Academy of Science of Baghdad (1985), the Academy of Science of Barcelona (1986) and the Academy of Islamic Studies of Amman (1991). He was also the first to hold the chair at the Institut du Monde Arabe of Paris (1990), he opened the lecture series in the great mosque of this city (1990-1991) and he served as the president of the Fifth International Symposium of History of Arabic Science held in 1992.