Eleazar Huerta
Eleazar Huerta Valcárcel (born December 22, 1903 in Tobarra , Albacete province , † January 28, 1974 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean Romance scholar and Hispanist of Spanish origin.
life and work
Eleazar Huerta Valcárcel studied law in Madrid and became a socialist politician, from 1936 a member of parliament, and in 1937 mayor of Albacete . At the same time he taught at the local teacher training college. After the civil war he went into exile in Chile. In 1957 he became a professor for Spanish and world literature at the newly founded Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia . Together with Guillermo Araya Goubet, he built up the Spanish department there and in 1964 co-founded the magazine Estudios filológicos . In Tobarra, the municipal cultural institute bears his name.
Works
- Poética del "Mio Cid" , Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Nuevo Extremo, 1948, Albacete, Ediciones de la Diputación, 1990.
- (Ed.) Mariano Latorre (1886–1950), La isla de los pájaros , Santiago, Nascimento, 1955.
- (Ed.) Angel de Saavedra Rivas, Don Alvaro, o, La fuerza del sino, y seleccion de Romances historicos , Santiago de Chile, Editorial Universitaria, 1958.
- Esquema de poetica , Santiago de Chile, Andres Bello editorial, 1962.
- Indagaciones épicas. La maravilla épica y su forma reveladora en la “Iliada” y en el “Poema del Cid” , Valdivia, Facultad de filosofía y letras de la Universidad austral de Chile, 1969.
- El simbolismo de la mano en Bécquer , Albacete, Ediciones de la Diputación, 1990.
- Lo árabe en la novela española y otros ensayos , Albacete, Ediciones de la Diputación, 1991.
- Cancionero mozo y Libro de alo , Albacete, Ediciones de la Diputación, 1992.
literature
- En homenaje a Eleazar Huerta V. , ed. by Carlos Santander, Leonidas Morales and Erwin Haverbeck, Santiago de Chile, Editorial universitaria, 1964 (Estudios filologos 1, 1965).
Web links
- Literature by and about Eleazar Huerta in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://infotobarra.en.eresmas.com/eleazar.htm (Appreciation, Spanish, with picture, names date of death: September 14, 1973)
- http://www.fpabloiglesias.es/archivo-y-biblioteca/diccionario-biografico/biografias/10502_huerta-valcarcel-eleazar (short biography, Spanish, with picture, date of death taken over)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huerta, Eleazar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huerta Valcárcel, Eleazar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean Romanist and Hispanic of Spanish descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tobarra , Albacete Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1974 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |