Alberto Lista
Alberto Rodríguez de Lista y Aragón (born October 15, 1775 in Seville , † October 5, 1848 in Seville) was a Spanish mathematician , poet , writer and literary critic .
Life
Don Alberto Lista y Aragon studied at the University of Seville , received the chair of philosophy at the College of San Isidoro in Seville in 1803, that of the beautiful sciences in 1806 and became professor of rhetoric and poetics at the university there in 1807.
Fled during the French invasion, he returned to his fatherland in 1817, where he was employed as a teacher at the Bilbao Academy the following year .
From 1820 he edited the magazines in Madrid: El Censor and El Imparcial , and from 1828 in Bayonne the Gaceta de Bayona . He published the Estafeta de San Sebastian in 1830 and, after both newspapers were suppressed, took over the editing of the Gaceta de Madrid in 1833 until he was appointed professor of higher mathematics at the University of Madrid in 1837 .
In 1838 he resigned from this office to take over the leadership of the College of San Felipe Neri in Cádiz , which he led until 1840.
“Lista was one of the greatest among modern Spanish poets; with a rich imagination and deep feeling he combined a fine taste and a genuinely philosophical outlook on life. In the history of modern Spanish poetry, he is unsurpassed in the history of modern Spanish poetry in terms of perfection in form and expression, in particular in the grace of the verse structure. ”His Poesías appeared in Madrid in 1822; it was also included in the Biblioteca de autores españoles , vol. 67.
Other works by him are:
- Tratado elemental de Geometría. Aplicación del Álgebra a la Geometría y Trigonometría rectilíneas . Bilbao: Antonio Apraiz, 1819 (2nd vol.).
- Colección de trozos escogidos de los mejores hablistas castellanos, en verso y prosa: hecha para el uso de la Casade Educación, sita en la calle de San Mateo de la Corte (2 vols.), An excellent collection of samples of Spanish poetry and eloquence;
- Historia Universal , an adaptation of Ségurs Histoire universelle continued to the most recent times;
- Lecciones de literatura dramatica española esplicadas en el Ateneo Cientìfico, Literario y Artístico (Madrid 1839) and
- Ensayos literarios y críticos (Seville 1844, 2 vols.).
He also wrote a supplement to Juan de Marianas and José Manuel Minanas Historia de España (Madrid 1828).
literature
- Corona poética: dedicada por la Academia de buenos letras de esta ciudad al Sr. D. Alberto Lista y Aragon; precedida de su biografia . Seville 1849.
- Hans Juretschke : Vida, obra y pensamiento de Alberto Lista . Escuela de Historia Moderna, Madrid 1951.
- Hans Juretschke: Reflexiones en torno al bicentenario de Alberto Lista: conferencia . Fundación Univ. Española, Madrid 1977.
- María del Carmen García Tejera: Conceptos y teorías literarias españolas del siglo XIX: Alberto Lista . Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz 1989.
- José Matías Gil González: Vida y personalidad de Alberto Lista . Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, Servicio de Publ, Sevilla 1994, ISBN 84-86810-48-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lista, Alberto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lista y Aragón, Alberto Rodríguez de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish mathematician and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seville |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1848 |
| Place of death | Seville |