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Alfonso Méndez Plancarte (born September 2, 1909 in Zamora (Mexico) , † February 8, 1955 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican cleric, researcher of humanism , Romanist , Hispanic and Mexicanist.

life and work

Méndez Plancarte studied philosophy in Rome (graduation in 1927) and theology in Mexico City (doctorate in 1931). In 1932 he was ordained a priest. Hindered from teaching by suffering, he devoted himself entirely to research. From 1954 he was a full member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua .

Alfonso Méndez Plancarte was the brother of Gabriel Méndez Plancarte . At the National Autonomous University of Mexico , an extraordinary chair (Cátedra extraordinaria Gabriel y Alfonso Méndez) has been named after the brothers since 2000.

Works

  • (Ed.) Poetas novohispanos . 3 volumes. Mexico City 1942–1945
  • (Ed.) El Códice Gómez de Orozco, un ms. novohispano del XVI-XVII . Mexico City 1945
  • (Ed.) Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz , Obras Completas . 3 volumes. Mexico City 1951–1955, 1995
  • (Ed. With Francisco González Guerrero) Amado Nervo , Obras completas . 2 volumes. Madrid 1951–1952
  • (Ed.) Rubén Darío , Poesías completas . Madrid 1952, 1967
  • Díaz Mirón. Poeta y artífice . Mexico City 1954
  • Cuestiúnculas gongorinas . Mexico City 1955 (with tribute to the author by Alfonso Junco)
  • San Juan de la Cruz en México . Mexico City 1959
  • Crítica de críticas sorjuanianas . Edited by Octaviano Valdés, Toluca 2000
  • El grano de mostaza. Breves explanaciones al Catecismo católico de Gasparri . Mexico City 1938
  • Fatima. Realidad y maravilla. El Tepeyac or el Lourdes del siglo XX . Mexico City 1948
  • El corazón de Cristo en la Nueva España . Mexico City 1951

literature

  • [Commemorative Alfonso Méndez Plancarte]. In: Ábside , 19, 1955, pp. 129–268
  • Alberto Enríquez Perea (Ed.): Humanismo y literatura. Correspondencia between Alfonso Reyes y Gabriel y Alfonso Méndez Plancarte 1937–1954 . Mexico City 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Méndez Plancarte, Alfonso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican cleric, researcher of humanism, Romanist, Hispanic and Mexicanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Zamora (Mexico)
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1955
Place of death Mexico city