José Maria Blanco White

José Maria Blanco White

José Maria Blanco White (also known as José Maria Blanco Crespo ; born July 11, 1775 in Seville , † May 20, 1841 in Liverpool ) was a Spanish - Irish writer , poet , thinker , journalist and theologian .

Life

His father, the merchant Guillermo Blanco (alias White), was the English Vice Consul in Seville. His mother, Maria Gertrudis Crespo y Neve, paid attention to a strictly religious upbringing of her children in order to prepare them for the priesthood. First, José studied with the Dominicans and later at the University of Seville . On December 21, 1799 he was ordained a priest despite his religious doubts. Because of these doubts and mainly because of its freedom fighting and liberal ambitions he left in 1810 Spain, went to England and studied in Oxford theology and entered on October 4, 1812, the Anglican Communion in which it already in 1814 in the office of priest introduced.

In London he developed his writing activity primarily to support the liberal, liberal revolutionaries in Spain, in particular through his Letters from Spain , which he published under the pseudonym Leocadio Doblado in Thomas Campbell's The New Monthly Magazine in 1821 and 1822. Then he began his religious writing, which was particularly directed against the Catholic Church. Finally, in 1831, he became Archbishop of the Church of England in Dublin . There, however, he was captured by a veritable enthusiasm for Unitarianism , so that he left the Anglican Church in 1835 and joined the Unitarians in Liverpool. On the occasion of his Unitarian change of heart, he wrote his work Observations on Heresy and Orthodoxy (London 1835). On May 20th, José Maria Blanco White died at the home of his Unitarian friend William Rathbone in Liverpool.

Works

• Letters from Spain , London, 1822.
• Practical and internal Evidence against Catholicism , 1825.
• Observations on Heresy and Orthodoxy in J. Mardon, London 1835.
• The Life of the Rev. Joseph Blanco White written by himself with portions of his correspondence , edited by John Hamilton, in John Chapman, London 1845 (Spanish translation by Antonio Garnica, University of Seville 1975).
• Luisa de Bustamante, o la huérfana española en Inglaterra , 1840.
• José María Blanco White. Antología de Obras en Español , edited by Vicente Lloréns. Barcelona 1971.
• Obra Inglesa de José María Blanco White , with a foreword by Juan Goytisolo , Barcelona 1974.

literature

• Christiane Schwab: The discovery of everyday life between the Enlightenment and Romanticism. - Letters from Spain (1822) by José Maria Blanco White . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8316-0867-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about José Maria Blanco White in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juan Goytisolo, Obra inglesa de Blanco White , Editorial Seix Barral, SA, Córgega , 270 , Barcelona 1972, 1974 and 1982, ISBN 84-322-0465-X , p. 49ff.
2. ↑ Ibid. P. 49ff. and pp. 264-268.