Agapito Rey

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Agapito Rey (born March 24, 1892 in Pontevedra , † November 29, 1987 in Bloomington (Indiana) ) was an American Romanist and Hispanic scholar of Spanish origin.

life and work

Rey went to Argentina in 1912. In 1914 he got stuck in New York on his way back to Europe and settled in the United States. He graduated from high school there in 1917 and served in the American Army from 1918 to 1919. He then studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (Master's degree in 1922). Until 1925 he taught as an instructor at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks , where he met the historian George Peter Hammond (1896-1993), with whom he was to realize numerous publications. In 1925 he went to Indiana University Bloomington , received his doctorate in 1929 from Antonio García Solalinde at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with the writing (ed.) Leomarte, Sumas de historia troyana (Madrid 1932) and rose to Associate Professor in Bloomington in 1944 to full professor for Spanish. In 1962 he retired (successor: Josep Roca-Pons ), but taught at the University of Arizona in Tucson until 1972 .

Rey was an honorary doctorate from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque (1963) and a founding member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language.

Works

  • (with Antonio García Solalinde) Ensayo de una bibliografia de la leyendas troyanans en la literatura española , Bloomington 1942
  • Cultura y costumbres del siglo XVI en la península Ibérica y en la Nueva España , Mexico 1944
  • (Ed.) Castigos e documentos para bien vivir ordenados por el Rey don Sancho IV , Bloomington 1952
  • (Ed.) El libro de los cien capítulos , Bloomington 1960
  • (Ed.) Maestro Pedro, Libro del consejo e de los consejeros , Saragossa 1962

Editing with George Peter Hammond

  • The Gallegos Relation of the Rodriguez expedition to New Mexico , Santa Fe 1927
  • Obregon's History of 16th century explorations in western America , Los Angeles 1928
  • Expedition into New Mexico made by Antonio de Espejo 1582-1583 , Los Angeles 1929, New York 1967
  • New México in 1602. Juan de Montoya's Relation of the discovery of New Mexico , Albuquerque 1938, New York 1967
  • Narratives of the Coronado Expedition 1540–1542 , Albuquerque 1940
  • (with Frederick Webb Hodge, 1864–1956) Fray Alonso de Benavides' revised Memorial of 1634 , Albuquerque 1945
  • Don Juan de Oñate. Colonizer of New Mexico 1595-1628 , Albuquerque 1953
  • The rediscovery of New Mexico, 1580-1594. The explorations of Chamuscado, Espejo, Castaño de Sosa, Morlete, and Leyva de Bonilla and Humaña , Albuquerque 1966

literature

  • Homenaje a Don Agapito Rey. Trabajos publicados en su honor , ed. by Josep Roca-Pons , Bloomington 1980

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personal data
SURNAME Rey, Agapito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist and Hispanist of Spanish descent
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Pontevedra
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1987
Place of death Bloomington (Indiana)