Edward Larocque Tinker
Edward Larocque Tinker (* 12. September 1881 in New York ; † 6. July 1968 ) was a US -American writer and philanthropist . He was interested in Latin American culture.
Life
Tinker was a grandson of attorney Joseph Larocque , his mother was Louise (Larocque) Tinker and his father was Henry Champlin Tinker. He studied law at Columbia University , and received doctorates from the Universities of Paris and Madrid . He studied Spanish culture in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, and the United States.
In 1959 he and his second wife Frances McKee Tinker founded the Tinker Foundation in memory of his wife Frances McKee Tinker, his father Henry Champlin Tinker and his grandfather Edward Greenfield Tinker with the aim of “promoting the development of an equitable, sustainable and productive society in Latin America. ".
The Edward Larocque Tinker Library is located in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin .
Publications (selection)
- Lafcadio Hearn's American Days , 1924
- Closed Shutters: Old New Orleans - the Eighties , 1931
- Les écrits de langue française en Louisiane au XIXe siècle , 1932
- The horsemen of the Americas and the literature they inspired , 1953
- Gombo Comes to Philadelphia 1957
- Life and Literature of the Pampas , 1961
- Centaurs of Many Lands , 1964
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Foundation. The Tinker Foundation.
- ↑ Edward Larocque Tinker Library ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tinker, Edward Larocque |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1968 |
| Place of death | new York |