Alfonso de Palencia

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Alfonso Fernández de Palencia (born July 21, 1424 in El Burgo de Osma ( Soria province ), † March 1492 in Seville ) was a Spanish historiographer , lexicographer and humanist .

Live and act

He was born into a Converso family. His father's name was Luis González Palencia who had worked as secretary for the Count of Alba de Tormes García Álvarez de Toledo .

Palencia was brought up and trained in the environment of the Bishop of Burgos, the former Rabbi Paulus de Santa Maria . Paulus de Santa Maria converted to the Catholic faith with some of his siblings and family members in the years 1390-1391 .

Later Palencia entered the entourage of the Bishop of Burgos by Alfonso de Cartagena (1384-1456). After traveling and staying in Italy in the entourage of Alfonso de Cartagena, Henry IV of Castile appointed him chronicler of the kingdom in 1454. He stayed in Rome and Florence in the service of Cardinal Bessarion until 1453. After returning to Spain, he lived and worked from now on in Seville, which, except for sporadic journeys in Andalusia, never left Palencia until his death.

During the reign of the Catholic kings , Palencia created the well-known Latin-Spanish dictionary Universal vocabulario en latín y en romance (1490), a number of other dictionaries compiled by other authors . In creating his work, Palencia relied on the Latin-Latin dictionary, Elementarium Doctrinae Rudimentum by Papias , who came from Italy , which was written around the year 1040 to 1050, and added Castilian expressions to the Latin lexicon.

During the Castilian War of Succession he worked as a diplomat, founded a Hermandad in 1476 and organized the dispatch of a fleet to defend Gran Canaria in 1479 (see also Treaty of Alcáçovas ).

Works (selection)

  • Opus Synonymorum , also known as De sinonymis elegantibus 1472
  • Uniuersale Compendium Vocabulorum , Seville 1490
  • Compendiolum. 1482

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ The year and place of birth remain uncertain, according to some authors it is given as the year 1423 and Palencia as his place of birth.
  2. ↑ José López del Toro: Cuarta Década de Alonso de Palencia. Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid 1971, ISBN 84-600-6271-6 .
  3. ^ Fermín Sierra Martínez: Literatura y transgresión: en homenaje al profesor Manuel Ferrer Chivite. Rodopi, 2004, ISBN 90-420-1158-0 , p. 102
  4. ^ Francisco Cantera Burgos: La conversión del celebre talmudista Salomón Levi (Pablo de Burgos). In: Boletin de la biblioteca de Menéndez Pelayo , Volume 15, 1933, pp. 419-448.
  5. ^ Antonia M a Medina Guerra: Modernidad del universal vocabulario de Alfonso Fernández de Palencia. ELUA, 7, 1991, pp. 45-60.
  6. ^ Annegret Alsdorf-Bollee, Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh: Spanische Sprachgeschichte. 5th edition. Klett, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 3-12-939624-1 , p. 107.
  7. ↑ Óscar Perea Rodríguez: Alfonso de Palencia (1424-1492). MCN biographies
personal data
SURNAME Palencia, Alfonso de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palencia, Alfonso Fernández de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish historiographer, lexicographer and humanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1424
PLACE OF BIRTH El Burgo de Osma ( Soria Province )
DATE OF DEATH March 1492
Place of death Seville