Ángel Valbuena Briones
Ángel Valbuena Briones (born January 11, 1928 in Madrid , † February 5, 2014 in Hockessin ) was an American Romanist and Hispanic student of Spanish origin.
Life
Ángel Julián Valbuena, son of Ángel Valbuena Prat , studied at the University of Murcia (graduated in 1949) and received his doctorate in 1952 from the Complutense University of Madrid . He was a lecturer at Oxford University from 1953 to 1955 , then taught in Madrid, went to the University of Wisconsin as a visiting lecturer in 1956 and was Assistant Professor at Yale University from 1958 to 1960 .
Valbuena was Elias Ahuja Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Delaware from 1960 to 1999 . In 1963, he acquired US citizenship in Wilmington, Delaware . He published under the name Ángel Valbuena Briones.
Valbuena was known as a connoisseur and editor of the works of Calderón de la Barca .
Works
- Literatura hispanoamericana , Barcelona 1952, 1962, 1967, 1969 (part of: Ángel Valbuena Prat, Historia de la literatura española )
- (with Luis Hernández Aquino) Nueva poesía de Puerto Rico, 1952
- Ensayo sobre la obra de Calderón , Madrid 1958, 1968
- Perspectiva crítica de los dramas de Calderón , Madrid 1965
- Ideas y palabras , New York 1968
- Calderón y la comedia nueva , Madrid 1977
Web links
- Literature by and about Ángel Valbuena Briones in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Obituary, with picture (English)
- Font directory
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| SURNAME | Valbuena Briones, Ángel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Valbuena Briones, Ángel Julián |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance philologist and Hispanist of Spanish descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid , Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 2014 |
| Place of death | Hockessin , Delaware , United States |