Ramiro de Maeztu
Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney (born May 4, 1875 in Vitoria-Gasteiz , Álava , † October 29, 1936 near Madrid ) was a Spanish journalist, literary critic and political theorist and a member of the Generación del 98 .
Life
Maeztu was the son of a Basque and an English mother. At a young age he was a socialist. During the First World War he was a correspondent for several Spanish newspapers and traveled to Germany and France.
After the end of the war, he returned to Spain disaffected and distanced himself from many of his socialist friends. He assumed that human reason alone was not enough to solve the social problems of the time. It took a strong authority and tradition based on Catholicism .
In 1928 he became the Spanish ambassador to Argentina. Together with Pedro Sainz Rodríguez and others, he founded the monarchist movement Acción Española in 1931 . Maeztu became one of the most famous defenders of the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera . He called on Spain to "rediscover its sense of the Roman Catholic mission of the 16th century."
At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War , he was imprisoned on July 30th in the Cárcel de Ventas prison near Madrid. On October 29, 1936, Maeztu was shot dead by Republican soldiers in the Aravaca cemetery near Madrid.
Works (selection)
- Hacia otra España . Biblioteca Nueva, Barcelona 1997, ISBN 84-7030-432-1 (reprint of the Bilbao 1899 edition).
- Don Quixote , Don Juan y La Celestina . Ensayos en sympatia . Espasa-Calpre, Madrid 1981, ISBN 84-239-0031-2 (reprint of the Madrid 1926 edition).
- Authority, Liberty, and Function in Light of the War . Allen & Unwin, London 1916.
- La defensa de la Hispanidad . Rialp, Madrid 2001, ISBN 84-321-3187-3 (reprint of the Valladolid 1934 edition).
swell
- Carolyn P. Boyd: Historia Patria. Politics, History, and National Identity in Spain, 1875-1975 . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1997, ISBN 0-691-02656-4 .
- Ramiro de Maeztu. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . United Soft Media, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8032-6628-6 (DVD-ROM).
Individual evidence
- ↑ A Spanish edition was published in 1919 by Editorial Minerva (Barcelona) under the title La crisis del humanismo
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maeztu, Ramiro de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maeztu y Whitney, Ramiro de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish journalist, literary critic and political theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vitoria-Gasteiz , Álava |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1936 |
| Place of death | near Madrid |