Antonio Tovar

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Antonio Tovar (born May 17, 1911 in Valladolid , † December 13, 1984 in Madrid ) was a Spanish philologist , linguist and historian.

biography

The son of a notary grew up in the Basque Country and Villena , which taught him to speak Basque and Catalan at an early age . He studied at the University of María Cristina, history at the University of Valladolid and classical philology in Paris , Madrid and Berlin .

During his student days he was chairman of the FUE (Federación Universitaria de Estudiantes).

At the time of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) he worked as a civil servant at the radio station Radio Nacional de España. He came closer to the Franco regime and in 1939 became Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Information for a short time.

Tovar received his doctorate in 1941 from the University of Madrid and in 1942 received the chair of Latin at the University of Salamanca . Then he became a professor at the University of Buenos Aires (1948–1949). From 1951 to 1958 he was rector of the University of Salamanca.

He then taught at the University of San Miguel de Tucumán (1958–1959). At that time he had the opportunity to study the pre-Columbian languages ​​of northern Argentina. He also tried to found a school during this time that would follow his teachings.

Between 1963 and 1965 Tovar worked at the University of Illinois , where he held the chair of classical philology . In 1965 he moved to the University of Madrid , where he quit his service a short time later as a sign of solidarity with protesting students. He returned to the USA and was appointed to the chair for comparative linguistics at the University of Tübingen in 1967, which he held until his retirement in 1979. In 1974 he became a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

In the early 1940s, Tovar was counted among the "liberal Falangists", which also included Dioniso Ridruejo and Pedro Lain Entralgo, who strived for a more secular and modern culture and published in magazines such as Escorial , Vertice and Revista de Estudios Politicos .

He participated with reviews for the Gaceta Illustrada , for which Pedro Laín Entralgo and Julián Marías also wrote, but these were in the field of theater and cinema.

Publications

  • En el primer giro. Madrid 1941.
  • Estudios sobre las primitivas lenguas hispánicas. Buenos Aires 1949.
  • La lengua vasca. San Sebastian 1950.
  • Estudios sobre la España Antigua. Madrid 1971.
  • Introduction to the Language History of the Iberian Peninsula: Today's Spanish and its Historical Foundations. Tuebingen 1977.
  • Mitología e ideología sobre la lengua vasca: Historia de los estudios sobre ella. Madrid 1980.
  • Catálogo de las lenguas de América del Sur: con clasificaciones, indicaciones tipológicas, bibliografía y mapas. Madrid 1984.

Awards

  • 1979: Bronze medal from the University of Tübingen
  • 1981: Awarded the Hansian Goethe Prize
  • 1984: Designate a central street in Salamanca in Rector Tovar

literature

  • Francisco J. Oroz Arizcuren (Ed.); Eugenio Coseriu, Carlo de Simone (collaborators): Navicula Tubingensis: studia in honorem Antonii Tovar. (Tübingen Contributions to Linguistics, 230). Festschrift. Narr, Tübingen 1984, ISBN 3-87808-230-4 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Wolf Dietrich: Obituary for Antonio Tovar. In: Iberoromania. Vol 24: 95-97 (1986).
  2. ^ Karl Horst Schmidt: Antonio Tovar May 17, 1911 - December 14, 1985. In: Journal of Celtic Philology. Issue 1, January 1986, pp. 289-290.
  3. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Antonio Tovar. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 10, 2016 .
  4. ^ Stanley G. Payne: The Franco Regime 1936–1975. The University of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin 1987, ISBN 0-299-11070-2 , p. 434.
  5. ^ Eugenio Coseriu: Antonio Tovar. In: Francisco J. Oroz Arizcuren (ed.); Eugenio Coseriu, Carlo de Simone (collaborators): Navicula Tubingensis: studia in honorem Antonii Tovar. (Tübingen Contributions to Linguistics, 230). Festschrift. Narr, Tübingen 1984, ISBN 3-87808-230-4 , S. XV.
personal data
SURNAME Tovar, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish philologist, linguist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Valladolid
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1984
Place of death Madrid