Bartolome Hidalgo

Bartolomé Hidalgo , (born August 24, 1788 in Montevideo , † November 28, 1822 in Morón (Argentina) , in today's greater Buenos Aires area ) was a poet of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata . He is considered to be the founder of gauchesque poetry in Argentina and Uruguay.

Monument to Bartolomé Hidalgo in Montevideo, fundador de la lírica gauchesca en el Río de la Plata (founder of gaucho poetry in the La Plata region)

Life

Hidalgo came from a humble background and is said to have been a shop clerk or hairdresser in his youth. In 1807 he fought against the English invasion of the viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata . Four years later he published some smaller works in the Gaceta newspaper and wrote the patriotic song Marcha Oriental or Himno Oriental . He fought on the side of Artigas against the Spanish crown and took part in the campaigns against the Portuguese troops who had been called to help by the Spanish viceroy. In 1812 he wrote Cielitos , mostly revolutionary songs directed against the Spanish crown. In 1814 he took part in the siege of Montevideo, in which the Spaniards were entrenched. He was also appointed administrator of the post office. Fernando Otorgués, the military governor of the Banda or Provincia Oriental (today: Uruguay) appointed him the province's Minister of Economics the following year. However, Hidalgo held the position of grand officer.

In 1816 his one-person pieces Sentimientos de un patriota , La libertad civil and El Triunfo were premiered. In the same year he was appointed director of the Casa de Comedia (comedy theater) and wrote his Marcha Nacional Oriental . In 1818 he moved to Buenos Aires, where he was offered a government office, which he refused. In the same year he published Epitalamio a don Francisco de Antuña (a kind of wedding poem ) and Cielito a la Acción de Maipú . In 1819 he published the Cielito a la venida de la expedición española . In 1820 he married Juana Cortina and wrote the Cielito Un gaucho de la Guardia del Monte contesta al Manifiesto de Fernando and the Cielito patriótico del gaucho Ramón Contreras . In 1821 and 1822 his three diálogos appeared , d. H. the Diálogo patriótico interesante , the Nuevo diálogo patriótico and the Relación , in which two gauchos comment on political events in the dialect of the rural population. In 1821 a last Cielito appeared , Al triunfo de Lima y el Callao .

Works

• Marcha Oriental or Himno Oriental (1811)
• Sentimientos de un patriota (1816)
• La libertad civil (1816)
• El Triunfo (1816)
• Marcha Nacional Oriental (1816)
• Epitalamio a don Francisco de Antuña (1818)
• Cielito a la Acción de Maipu (1818)
• Cielito a la venida de la expedición española (1819)
• Un gaucho de la Guardia del Monte contesta al Manifiesto de Fernando (1820)
• Cielito patriótico del gaucho Ramón Contreras (1820)
• Diálogo patriótico interesante (1821)
• Nuevo diálogo patriótico (1821)
• Al triunfo de Lima y el Callao (1821)
• Relacion (1822)

literature

• Poesía gauchesca . Biblioteca Ayacucho, Caracas 1977.
• Dieter Reichardt (Ed.): Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994.