 He completed his classical education by travelling to Italy and Greece in the 1920s.Around this time he collaborated with Pompeu Fabra on the General Dictionary of the Catalan Language ("Diccionari General de la Llengua Catalana").Later he worked in the Bernat Metge Foundation ("Fundació Bernat Metge"), specializing in classical studies, and became lecturer in Greek at the Independent University of Barcelona in 1934.