Alexandre Cioranescu

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Alexandre Cioranescu ( Romanian Alexandru Ciorănescu, Spanish Alejandro Cioranescu) (born November 15, 1911 in Moroeni ; † November 25, 1999 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife ) was a Romanian author, Romanist , comparativeist and historian with French nationality, who lived in Romania , in France and 50 years in Tenerife.

life and work

Cioranescu made the best high school diploma of his year in Romania. He studied in Bucharest and from 1934 at the Sorbonne , where he received his doctorate with the thesis L'Arioste en France des origines à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (2 vols., Paris 1939, Turin 1970, Paris 1970). From 1938 to 1940 he was a lecturer at the University of Lyon , from 1940 to 1942 cultural attaché at the Romanian embassy in Paris, then returned to Bucharest, in 1946 achieved a new embassy in Paris, but was dismissed by the new communist rulers of Romania in 1947 and left in 1948 (initially as a French lecturer) at the University of La Laguna in Tenerife . He stayed there until the end of his life, mostly as a professor "encargado de curso". In 1958 he obtained French citizenship and was seconded from the University of Bordeaux to La Laguna from 1965 to teach comparative literature , and from 1978 as a full professor of comparative literature .
The University of La Laguna made Cioranescu an honorary doctorate in 1990.

In Santa Cruz de Tenerife a street (Calle Alejandro Cioranescu) is named after him.

Other works

Bibliographies

  • Bibliographie de la littérature française du XVIe siècle , Paris 1959, Geneva 1975
  • Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-septième siècle , 3 vols., Paris 1965–1966, 1969, Geneva 1994
  • Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle , 3 vols., Paris 1969, Geneva 1999
  • Bibliografía franco-española 1600-1715 , Madrid 1977
  • Bibliografía canaria 1949-1989 , Las Palmas 1989

Monographs and editing activities (literature and linguistics)

  • Les 'Imitations de l'Arioste' de Philippe Desportes, in: Mélanges de l'école roumaine en France 12, 1934, pp. 63–152; Vălenii de Munte 1936
  • (Eds.) Jean Thomas, Isabelle. Tragédie imitée de l'Arioste , Paris 1938
  • Vie de Jacques Amyot , Paris 1941
  • Literatura comparata. Studii si schițe , Craiova 1944
  • Estudios de literatura española y comparada , San Cristóbal de La Laguna (La Laguna de Tenerife) 1954
  • El barroco o el descubrimiento del drama , La Laguna 1957 (Romanian 1980)
  • Diccionario etimológico rumano , La Laguna 1958 - 1966 (Romanian: Dicţionarul etimologic al limbii române , Bucharest 2001)
  • Principios de literatura comparada , La Laguna 1964, (with a preface by Antonio Álvarez de la Rosa) Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2006 (Romanian 1997)
  • Colon humanista. Estudios de humanismo atlántico , Madrid 1967
  • L'Avenir du passé. Utopie et littérature , Paris 1972 (Romanian 1996)
  • Vasile Alecsandri , New York 1973
  • Ion Barbu , New York, 1981 (Romanian Bucharest 1996)
  • Le masque et le visage. Du baroque espagnol au classicisme français , Geneva 1983
  • Los hispanismos en el francés clásico , Madrid 1987
  • Eminescu sub fiorul timpului , Bucharest 2000 (preface by Nicolae Florescu)

History

  • La Tradition historique et l'origine des Roumains , Bucharest 1942
  • La Roumanie vue par les étrangers , Bucharest 1944
  • Bartolomé Cairasco de Figueroa. Su vida, su familia, su amigos, in: In: Anuario de estudios atlánticos 3, 1957, pp. 275–386
  • (Ed. With Elias Serra y Rafóls) Le Canarien . Crónicas francesas de la conquista de Canarias , 4 vols., 1959-1964-1980; 2004
  • Colón y Canarias , La Laguna, 1959, Santa Cruz, 1979
  • La primera biografia de Cristóbal Colón. Fernando Colón y Bartolomé de las Casas , Santa Cruz 1960
  • (Ed.) Oeuvres de Christophe Colomb , Paris 1961
  • Thomas Nichols. Mercader de azúcar, hispanista y hereje , La Laguna 1963
  • Agustin de Betancourt . Su obra técnica y ciéntifica , La Laguna 1965
  • La Laguna. Guía histórica y monumental , La Laguna 1965
  • Historia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife , 2 vols., Santa Cruz 1977–1978
  • Juan de Bethencourt , Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1982
  • Historia del Cabildo Insular de Tenerife 1913-1988 , Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1988
  • Diccionario biográfico de canarios americanos , Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1992

Literary works

  • (Translator) Jean Moréas, Stanțe , Bucharest 1945
  • Don Carlos de Viana. Drama , Paris 1954
  • Alexandre Treize [pseudonym], Le couteau vert , Paris 1963 (Romanian 1993)
  • (Translator and editor) Dante, La divine comédie , Lausanne 1964
  • Care Daniel? Roman, Bucharest 1995
  • Paiața tristă. Povestiri , Bucharest 2002

literature

  • L'homme et l'œuvre , ed. by Aurelio Rauta, Madrid 1991
  • Alexandru Cioranescu, Amintiri fără memorie I. 1911-1934 , 1995
  • Crisula Ștefănescu, Între admirație și iubire. De vorbă cu Alexandru Ciorănescu , Bucharest 2000
  • Isla abierta. Estudios franceses en memoria de Alejandro Cioranescu , ed. by José M Oliver Frade, La Laguna 2004
  • Lilica Voicu-Brey, Alejandro Cioranescu. Biografía intelectual de un comparatista , La Laguna 2006
  • Ștefan Ion Ghilimescu, România exilatǎ, George & Alexandru Ciorǎnescu , Bucharest 2008
  • Lilica Voicu-Brey, Alexandru Cioranescu. Bibliography 1930-2010 , Târgoviste 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Cioranescu, Alexandre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cioranesco, Alejandro; Cioranesco, Alexandre; Cioranescou, Alexandre; Cioranescu, Alejandro; Ciorănescu, Alexandru; Tăcutu, Mihail; Treize, Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian author, Romanist, comparativeist and historian with French nationality
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Moroeni
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1999
Place of death Santa Cruz de Tenerife