Antonio Mediz Bolio

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Antonio Mediz Bolio Cantarell (born October 13, 1884 in Mérida , Yucatán , † September 15, 1957 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican playwright , poet , journalist and politician.

Life

Antonio Mediz Bolio spent most of his youth on his father's hemp plantation . In 1903 he was the private secretary of Olegario Molinades, the governor of Yucatan and clerk at the Yucatan Second Civil Court.

Mediz Bolio studied law at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán and became a lawyer . He began his writing career as the author of various magazines such as El Salón Literario (1893), Revista de Mérida (1911) and Pimienta y Mostaza (1903). In the latter he also published poems under the pseudonym Radamés . In 1905 and 1906 he headed La Arcadia magazine , and in 1916 El Ateneo . For the newspaper El Intransigente he wrote editorials under the pseudonym AMB and literary text under the name Bergerac .

As a supporter of Francisco Madero , he emigrated to Cuba after General Huerta came to power , where he wrote in the El Heraldo against the dictatorship in Mexico. After his return to Yucatán , he ran the magazine La Voz de la Revolución together with Antonio Ancona Albertos . In the following years he worked in the Mexican diplomatic service in Spain (1919-21), Colombia (1921), Argentina (1921-22), Sweden (1932-24) and Costa Rica and Nicaragua (1925-32).

After his return to Mexico, Mediz Bolio worked, among other things, as director of the archeology department of the National Museum (1937-39), representative of the Yucatan State in Mexico City and advisor to the government under President Miguel Alemán Valdés . He ran for governor of the Yucatan in 1933 and became a member of the Senate of Mexico in 1952.

He was also active in numerous Mexican cultural associations: in 1916 he was the founder and first president of the Ateneo Peninsular ; He was president and honorary member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Autores , member of the Unión Mexicana de Autores , the Pen Club de México and the Ateneo de Ciencias y Artes de México , corresponding member of the Sociedad de Historia y Geografía de Guatemala , honorary member of the Real Academia Hispano- Americana de Ciencias y Artes de Cádiz and the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua as well as from 1930 corresponding and from 1946 full member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua . From 1935 to 1939 he taught Mayan language and culture at the University of Mexico .

Mediz Bolio is considered to be an important playwright in Mexico. In addition to dramas, he published several volumes of poetry and wrote several film scripts. His poems El caminante del Mayab and Yucalpetén were set to music by Guty Cárdenas .

Works

  • Evocaciones , poems, 1903
  • El verdugo , drama, 1910
  • La ola , drama, 1917
  • La casa del pueblo del Mayab , poems, 1928
  • La flecha del sol , drama, 1918
  • El sueño de Iturbide , drama
  • La fuerza de los débiles , Drama, 1920
  • La tierra del faisán y del venado , 1922
  • La cuatro Colmayel , poems, 1953
  • La tierra es mía , poems, 1953

Filmography

literature

predecessor Office successor
Eliseo Arredondo Mexican ambassador in Madrid
June 15, 1920 to September 9, 1920 		Juan Sánchez-Azcona y Díaz Covarrubias
Gerzayn Ugarte Mexican Ambassador to Bogotá
February 10, 1921 to August 21, 1921 		Juan B. Delgado Altamirano
Antonio Caso Mexican Ambassador to Buenos Aires
October 22, 1921 to March 7, 1922 		Enrique González Martínez
José G. Moreno de la Torre Mexican Ambassador to San José
March 3, 1925 to January 1, 1932 		Francisco de Asís de Icaza y León
predecessor Office successor
Eduardo Ruiz Mexican Ambassador to Managua
July 17, 1925 to January 18, 1926 		Pablo Herrera de Huerta

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Percy Alvin Martín, Manoel Cardozo, Who's who in Latin America : a biographical dictionary of the outstanding living men and women of Spanish America and Brazil, Stanford University Press, 1935, p. 244.
  2. ↑ Embajadores de México
  3. ↑ Embajadores de México
  4. ↑ Embajadores de México
  5. ↑ Embajadores de México
  6. ↑ Embajadores de México
personal data
SURNAME Mediz Bolio, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Medicine Bolio Cantarell, Antonio; Radamés (pseudonym); AMB (pseudonym); Bergerac (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican playwright, poet, journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Mérida , Yucatan
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1957
Place of death Mexico city