Amado Alonso

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Amado Alonso

Amado Alonso (born September 13, 1896 in Lerín , † May 26, 1952 in Arlington (Massachusetts) ) was a Spanish Romanist and Hispanist who taught in Argentina and the United States.

life and work

Alonso attended school in Pamplona and studied from 1915 in Madrid with Ramón Menéndez Pidal . From 1922 to 1923 he was a lecturer at the University of Berlin . In 1927 he received his doctorate with the work Estructura de las "Sonatas" de Valle-Inclán (1928, in: Materia y forma en poesía , Madrid 1955 and in: Ramón del Valle-Inclán , edited by Ricardo Doménech, 1988, p. 85– 117). From 1927 to 1946 he headed the Institute of Philology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (which was later named "Instituto de Filología y Literaturas Hispánicas Dr. Amado Alonso"). From 1946 until his death he taught at Harvard University on the Smith Chair.

Alonso founded and directed the magazines Revista de Filología Hispánica (Buenos Aires 1939-1946) and Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (Mexico 1948-1952). He translated Ferdinand de Saussure into Spanish ( Curso de Lingüística General , Buenos Aires 1945), as well as Karl Vossler ( Filosofía del lenguaje , Madrid 1940, Buenos Aires 2008).

Alonso was an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago (1941).

In 2001 the Fundación Amado Alonso was founded in Lerín in his honor .

Memberships

Since 1942, Alonso was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society . In 1944 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

  • (Ed. And translator with Raimundo Lida ) Introducción a la estilística romance , by Karl Vossler , Leo Spitzer y Helmut Hatzfeld , Buenos Aires 1932
  • El problema de la lengua en America , Madrid 1935
  • (with Charles Bally , Elise Richter and Raimundo Lida ) El Impresionismo en el lenguaje , Buenos Aires 1936, 3rd edition 1956
  • Castellano, español, idioma nacional. Historia espiritual de tres nombres , Buenos Aires 1938
  • (with Pedro Henríquez Ureña ) Gramática Castellana , Buenos Aires 1938–1939, most recently in 1999
  • (Ed. With Raimundo Lida ) El Español en Chile , trabajos de Rodolfo Lenz , Andrés Bello y Rodolfo Oroz , Buenos Aires 1940
  • Poesía y estilo de Pablo Neruda , Buenos Aires 1940, 1951
  • Ensayo sobre la novela histórica. El Modernismo en 'la Gloria de Don Ramiro' , Buenos Aires 1942, Madrid 1984
  • Estudios lingüísticos. Temas españoles , Madrid 1951
  • Estudios lingüísticos. Temas hispanoamericanos , Madrid 1953
  • Materia y forma en poesía , Madrid 1955
  • De la pronunciación medieval a la moderna en español , ed. by Rafael Lapesa , 2 vols., Madrid 1955–1969

literature

  • Laurence Samuel Johnson, The literary criticism of Amado Alonso and his principal disciples , Diss. Columbia University 1970
  • Homenaje a Amado Alonso (1896-1996), 2 vols., Seville 1996-1998
  • Juan Carlos Gómez Alonso, La estilística de Amado Alonso como una teoría del lenguaje literario , Murcia 2002 (ud T. La teoría literaria de Amado Alonso , Diss. Madrid 1995)
  • Luis Quiroga Torrealba, Tres lingüístas de América: Andrés Bello, Ángel Rosenblat, Amado Alonso , Caracas 2003
  • Bienvenido Palomo Olmos, Bibliografía de Amado Alonso , Cáceres 2004
  • Alexander M. Kalkhoff, Romance Philology in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries , Tübingen 2010, p. 167

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member History: Amado Alonso. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 9, 2018 .
  2. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved October 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Alonso, Amado
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amado Alonso García
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Romance philologist and Hispanist who taught in Argentina and the United States
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Lerín
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1952
Place of death Arlington, Massachusetts