Edmundo O'Gorman

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Edmundo O'Gorman (born November 24, 1906 in Coyoacán near Mexico City; died September 28, 1995 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican writer, historian and philosopher .

He was the brother of the architect and painter Juan O'Gorman (1905-1982) and the son of the painter and engineer Cecil Crawford O'Gorman (1874-1943), who immigrated from Ireland in 1895 . He was the grandson of Charles O'Gorman, the first British consul in Mexico City, who was later married to a Mexican citizen.

Edmundo O'Gorman studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he received his PhD in philosophy and history. He worked successively at the Archivo General de la Nación , the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Academy for Spanish Language) and the Academia Mexicana de la Historia , of which he was director from 1972 to 1987.

O'Gorman Columbus manuscript signed by Christopher Columbus on February 20, 1493

His most famous book is probably The Invention of America (Spanish: La invención de América , 1958), in which he argues that America was not “discovered” but “invented” in order to confirm the existence of a fifth continent in the Western worldview enable; and to “save” the inhabitants; the Europeans would have imposed their culture on the Native Americans and enslaved them.

O'Gorman was one of the founders of post-colonial studies.

In 1974 he won the National Prize for Sciences and Arts in the Language and Literature category (together with José Chávez Morado ), which his brother Juan had received two years earlier in the Fine Arts category .

He has also emerged as editor. For the Mexican book series Sepan Cuantos, for example, he contributed his Historia de las divisiones territoriales de México ( History of the administrative units in Mexico ) and worked - sometimes together with other scholars - in this series on the edition and as the author of forewords and appendices, the commentary etc. some other volumes with.

Edmundo O'Gorman's tomb is located in the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres ( Rotunda of Famous People ) in Mexico City.

Publications

Central Library of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Architect: Juan O'Gorman
  • Historia de las divisiones territoriales de México (1937).
  • Historia natural y moral de las Indias, del padre José de Acosta (1940).
  • Fundamentos de la historia de America (1942).
  • Crisis y porvenir de la ciencia histórica (1947).
  • Fundamentos de la historia de America (1951).
  • La idea del descubrimiento de America. Historia de esa interpretación y crítica de sus fundamentos (1951, 1976),
  • La invención de America. Investigación acerca de la estructura histórica del Nuevo Mundo y del sentido de su devenir (1958, 1977).
  • La supervivencia política novohispana (1961).
  • Historia de las divisiones territoriales de México (1968 [1966] Colección Sepan cuantos … , 45)
  • México el trauma de su historia (1977).
  • Destierro de Sombras (1986).

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Hale, C. EDMUNDO O'GORMAN Y LA HISTORIA NACIONAL & Kathleen Loock: Columbus in the USA: From national hero to ethnic identification figure. Bielefeld 2014, p. 59 .
  2. ↑ English under the title: The invention of America: an inquiry into the historical nature of the New World and the meaning of its history. Bloomington, Ind .: Indiana University Press, 1961.
  3. ↑ cf. eumed.net (fig. of cards)
  4. ↑ According to worldcat.org these were:
    Herodoto : Los nueve libros de la historia ;
    Thucydides : Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso ;
    Francisco Cervantes de Salazar : México en 1554 y Túmulo imperial ;
    Bartolomé de las Casas : Los indios de México y Nueva España: antología ;
    Antonio de Solís y Rivadeneyra : Historia de la conquista de México: población y progresos de la América Septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España
    Toribio Motolinia , Fray (Toribio de Benavente): Historia de los indios de la Nueva España: relación de los ritos antiguos, idolatrías y sacrificios de los indios de la Nueva España, y de la maravillosa conversión que Dios en ellos ha obrado .
  5. ↑ Photo of the tomb

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SURNAME O'Gorman, Edmundo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican writer, historian and philosopher of Irish descent
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Coyoacan
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1995
Place of death Mexico city