Fernando Lázaro Carreter

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Fernando Lárazo Carreter (1994).

Fernando Lázaro Carreter (born April 13, 1923 in Saragossa , † March 4, 2004 in Madrid ) was a Spanish author, Romance scholar, Hispanist, linguist and literary scholar.

life and work

Lázaro Carreter went to school in Saragossa until 1941 (one of his teachers was José Manuel Blecua Teijeiro ). He studied at the University of Saragossa (with Ynduráin Hernández ) and from 1943 at the University of Madrid . In 1947 he received his doctorate there from Dámaso Alonso with the work Las ideas lingüísticas en España durante el siglo XVIII (Madrid 1949, Barcelona 1985).

From 1949 Lázaro Carreter was professor at the University of Salamanca (from 1962 to 1968 also dean). From 1971 to 1978 he taught at the Autonomous University of Madrid , then until his retirement in 1988 at the Complutense University .

He was the author of three plays.

Lázaro Carreter was a member of the Real Academia Española from 1972 and its president from 1992 to 1998. He has been awarded six honorary doctorates from Spanish universities and has received numerous prizes, including the Creu de Sant Jordi Prize (1983) and the Order of Alfonso X the Wise (Grand Cross).

Prizes, schools, libraries and streets all bear his name. His grave is in Magallón, Zaragoza Province .

Works (selection)

  • Diccionario de términos filológicos, Madrid 1953 (numerous editions)
  • (Ed.) Teatro medieval. Textos íntegros en versión de Dr. D. Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Madrid 1958
  • Menéndez Pelayo. Su época y su obra literaria, 2 vol., Salamanca 1961
  • (with Correa Calderón, E. (1961)), Vida y obra del Fénix. Salamanca
  • Estilo barroco y personalidad creadora. Góngora. Quevedo. Lope de Vega, Madrid 1966, 1974
    • (Italian) Stile barocco e personalità creatrice, Bologna 1991
  • Lope de Vega; introducción a su vida y obra, Salamanca 1966
  • (with Evaristo Correa Calderón), Literatura española contemporánea, Salamanca 1968
  • (with Evaristo Correa Calderón), Lengua y literatura españolas, Salamanca 1971
  • Lengua española. Historia, teoría y práctica, 2 vols., Salamanca 1971–1972
  • "Lazarillo de Tormes" en la picaresca, Barcelona 1972
  • (with Evaristo Correa Calderón) Cómo se comenta un texto literario, Madrid 1974
    • (English) Writing about literary texts. A practical guide for students of Spanish, Madrid 1986
  • Estudios de Poética (la obra en sí), Madrid 1976
  • Qué es la literatura ?, Santander 1976
  • Curso de lengua española, Madrid 1978
  • Manuel de estilo, Madrid 1978
  • Estudios de Lingüística, Barcelona / Madrid 1980
  • De poética y poéticas, Madrid 1990
  • El dardo en la palabra, Barcelona 1997
  • Clásicos españoles de Garcilaso a los niños pícaros, Madrid 2002 (collective publication)
  • El nuevo dardo en la palabra, Barcelona 2003
  • Azaña, Lorca, Valle y otras sombras, Madrid 2004

literature

  • Serta Philologica F. Lázaro Carreter Natalem diem sexagesimun celebranti dicata , 3 vols., Madrid 1983
  • Palabras, norma, discurso. En memoria de Fernando Lázaro Carreter , ed. by L. Santos Río, Salamanca 2005
  • La imagen de la mujer y el amor en Quevedo. Homenaje a don Fernando Lázaro Carreter , ed. by Fernando Plata Parga, Pamplona 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Lázaro Carreter, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Romance philologist and Hispanist, linguist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaragoza
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2004
Place of death Madrid