Antonio Alcalá Galiano

Antonio Alcalá Galiano, por Vicente Palmaroli .

Antonio Alcalá Galiano (born July 22, 1789 in Cádiz , † April 11, 1865 in Madrid ) was a liberal Spanish politician, author, Romanist and Hispanic who temporarily worked in England.

life and work

Alcalá was the son of the naval commander Dionisio Alcalá Galiano (1760-1805), the nephew of Juan María de Villavicencio y de la Serna (1755-1830), the governor of Cádiz, and the uncle of Juan Valera . He was friends with Ángel de Saavedra .

Alcalá originally aspired to a military career, but switched to the diplomatic service in 1812, was at the Spanish Embassy in Sweden in 1814 and was elected Member of Parliament from Cádiz in 1822.

In 1823 he emigrated to London (which he had met on the way to Sweden in 1814) and held the first English professorship for Spanish at the newly founded University College London from 1828 to 1830 (which Pablo de Mendíbel and José María also refer to) Jiménez de Alcalá , who were to teach a little later at King's College London ). In London he was in contact with Jeremy Bentham and José Maria Blanco White .

In 1830 he returned to Spain and was a senior civil servant, ambassador and several times minister.

Alcalá was a member of the Real Academia de la Historia (1863).

Fonts

• Máximas y principios de la legislación universal , Madrid 1813
• (Preface) Ángel de Saavedra , El moro expósito o Córdoba y Burgos en el siglo X , Madrid 1834 (Preface as a manifesto of Spanish Romanticism)
• ( Arranged with Vicente Salvá ) Antonio de Capmany , Arte de traducir el idioma francés al castellano , Paris 1835 (Original Madrid 1776)
• (Ed.) Romancero Castellano, ó collección de antiguos romances populares de los Españoles , 2 vols., 2nd edition, Leipzig 1844 (first 1817, edited by Georg Bernhard Depping )
• Historia de la literatura española, francesa, inglesa é italiana en el siglo XVIII , Madrid 1844
• (Translator and editor) Samuel Astley Dunham, Historia de España desde los tiempos primitivos hasta la mayoría de la reina doña Isabel II , 7 vols., Madrid 1844–1846 (Original: History of Spain and Portugal, 5 vols., London 1832– 1833)
• Que el estudio profundo y detenido de las lenguas extranjeras, lejos de contribuir al deterioro de la propia, sirve para conocerla y manejarla con más acierto , Madrid 1861, in: Memorias de la Academia Española 1, 1870, pp. 144–174 (Akademievortrag : "The thorough study of foreign languages ​​does not harm the mother tongue, but serves to better understand and handle it")
• Recuerdos de un anciano , Madrid 1878, 1890, 1907, 1913, 1927, 1963, 1999, Buenos Aires 1951, Barcelona 2004, 2009, Charleston 2010 (memories)
• Memorias , 2 vols., Madrid 1886 (edited by his son)
• Obras escogidas , ed. by Jorge Campos, 2 vols., Madrid 1955
• L iteratura española siglo XIX de Moratín a Rivas , ed. by Vicente Lloréns, Madrid 1969 (collection of contributions from 1834)
• Lecciones de derecho político , ed. by Angel Garrorena Morales, Madrid 1984 (texts from 1843)
• Textos y discursos políticos , ed. by Raquel Sánchez García, Madrid 2003

literature

• Felipe Ximénez de Sandoval, Antonio Alcalá Galiano. El hombre que no llegó , Madrid 1948
• Vicente Llorens , Liberales y románticos. Una emigración española en Inglaterra 1823-1834 , Mexico City 1954, Madrid 1968, 1979, 2006, 2011
• Carlos García Barrón, La obra crítica y literaria de Antonio Alcalá Galiano , Diss. University of California at Los Angeles 1967
• Matilde Gallardo Barbarroja, Introducción y desarrollo del español en el sistema universitario inglés durante el siglo XIX, in: Estudios de Lingüística del Español 20, 2003 ( http://elies.rediris.es/elies20/ )
• Raquel Sánchez García, Alcalá Galiano y el liberalismo español , Madrid 2005

Web links

Commons : Antonio Alcalá Galiano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Antonio Alcalá Galiano  in the German Digital Library
• https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Antonio_Alcal%C3%A1_Galiano (with short biography, Spanish)