Enrique Gaspar
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Enrique Lucio Eugenio Gaspar y Rimbau ( March 2, 1842 , Madrid - September 7, 1902 , Oloron ) was a Spanish diplomat and writer.
life and work
Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau was born to a couple of actors. After his father's early death, the remaining family moved to Valencia , where he began studying, but dropped out to take a job in a bank. He started writing plays early on; At 21 he moved to Madrid to earn a living as a writer. There he married the daughter of an aristocratic family and entered the diplomatic service at 27; later he worked in the service of Spain in Greece, China and France, where he died in 1902.
In his 1887 adventure novel El Anacronópete , he described traveling back in time with a time machine, a year before HG Wells did so in the short story The Chronic Argonauts .
Selected Works
- La Nodriza Madrid 1876
- Atila Madrid, 1876
- El Anacronópete Madrid, 1887
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau: Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau. In: Smashwords. Retrieved December 17, 2016 .
- Various authors: La ciencia ficción española . Ediciones Robles, Madrid 2002, ISBN 84-931827-3-7 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaspar y Rimbau, Enrique |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gaspar y Rimbau, Enrique Lucio Eugenio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish diplomat and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1902 |
| Place of death | Oloron |