Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui Martínez

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Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui Martínez , sometimes also transcribed into Quechua Demetrio Tupah Yupanki (born December 22, 1923 in Cusco , Peru ; † April 29, 2018 in Lima ), was a Peruvian professor of Quechua , translator and journalist . He received special attention in Peru for his translation of Don Quixote into Cusco Quechua .

Life

Demetrio Tupah Yupanki grew up in San Jerónimo in the province of Cusco , a traditional residence of the Inca nobility, and learned Quechua from his family. At the age of 14 he came to the seminary of San Antonio Abad in Cusco , where he studied theology , philosophy , Latin , Greek and his mother tongue Quechua. However, he finally decided not to become a priest, but went to Lima to study philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and then law at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos .

After graduating, he worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper La Prensa and began to give Quechua courses. To this end, he later opened his own language school, Yachay Wasi, and gave courses in the USA . In the 1980s and 1990s he also wrote a weekly bilingual column in the Sunday edition of El Comercio .

In November 2005, the first part of his Quechua translation of " Don Quixote de la Mancha " by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was published under the title Yachay sapa wiraqucha dun Qvixote Manchamantan ; In 2015, at the age of 91, Tupah Yupanki finally completed the second part of the work, which has now been fully translated into Quechua.

family

Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui's father Octavio Túpac Yupanqui Herrera was a tailor, his grandfather Justino painter of altars for processions. The members of the Túpac Yupanqui family in San Jerónimo carried the standard during the processions on Corpus Christi and determined the rhythm of the procession. The paternal family name (apellido) consists of two words and is the name of an Inca , Tupah Yupanki , while his maternal is Martínez. Demetrio Tupah Yupanki had thirteen children, twelve of whom were still alive when he died in April 2018, as well as 35 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Works

  • Donald Frederick Solá, Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui Martínez (1975): Runa Simita Yachay: Gramática Quechua alcance de todos . Avanzada, 1961. 120 pages.
  • Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui (1961): Hablemos Quechua . La Academia de Quechua Yachay Wasi, 1976.
  • Donald F. Solá, Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui (1976): Drama Ollantay: el rigor de un padre y la generosidad de un rey: Códice de Santo Domingo comparado con otras versiones . Academia de Quechua Yachay Wasi, 1976. 114 pages.

Translation from Spanish

  • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: Yachay sapa wiraqucha dun Quixote Manchamantan [Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote da la Mancha]. Translation from Spanish by Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui. Asociación de Artistas Populares de Sarhua. Empresa Editora El Comercio, 2005. 379 pages.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Descanse en paz, amauta. Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui falleció a los 94 años. In: radionacional.com.pe. 2018-05-03, accessed May 4, 2018 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Familias reales. Los herederos de los incas . El Dominical del diario El Comercio. 4th October 2009
personal data
SURNAME Túpac Yupanqui Martínez, Demetrio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tupah Yupanki, Demetrio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian university professor, professor of Quechua, translator and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Cusco , Peru
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2018
Place of death Lima