Fernando Ortiz Fernández

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Fernando Ortiz Fernández (born July 16, 1881 in Havana ; † April 10, 1969 there ) was a Cuban scientist , politician and lawyer . He is considered the founder of Cuban anthropology and music ethnology . In this capacity he taught a whole generation of modern Cuban anthropologists. He also made a name for himself as a writer of criminological and historiographical writings.

Life

Fernando Ortiz, or simply Don Fernando , was born in Havana and spent his childhood in Menorca , Spain . In 1895 he returned to Havana, where he began to study law. He finished his studies in Barcelona in Spain and obtained his doctorate in Madrid .

Ortiz entered the diplomatic service and was consul in A Coruña , Geneva and Marseille . In 1906 he became a lawyer at the Cuban Court of Auditors, and in 1908 he became a professor of law in Havana, where he taught public law , political economy and constitutional law. In 1914 he was a co-founder of the Cuban People's University. From 1917 he was a member of the Cuban parliament for the Liberal Party for ten years. In 1931 Fernando Ortiz had to seek exile in the USA because he had written a manifesto against the Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado . In 1933, after the fall of Machado, he returned to Cuba. In 1949 he was the founding president of the Cuban peace movement.

Ortiz introduced the concept of transculturality into the discussion in the 1940s .

tomb

Because of his groundbreaking research on Afro-Cuban mythology and Afro-Cuban rituals, Fernando Ortiz is also called the “Third Explorer of Cuba” (after Christopher Columbus and Alexander von Humboldt ). He is buried in the Cementerio Cristóbal Colón in Havana.

One of his students was the Cuban anthropologist and writer Miguel Barnet , who now heads the Fernando Ortiz Foundation .

Works

Co-founder of:

  • Revista Bimestre Cubana (Cuban Bimonthly Magazine )
  • Archivos del Folklore Cubano (Archive for Cuban Folklore, La Habana 1924–1930)
  • Estudios Afrocubanos (Afro-Cuban Studies, La Habana, 1937–1940 and 1945–1946)
  • La hampa afrocubana: Los negros brujos (The Afro-Cuban Underworld: The Black Witches, 1902)
  • Las rebeliones de los afro-cubanos (Afro-Cuban Rebellions, 1910)
  • La reconquista de América: Reflexiones sobre el panhispanismo (The recapture of America: Reflections on Panhispanismus, Paris 1910)
  • Entre cubanos: psicologia tropical (Among Cubans: Tropical Psychology, 1913) Digitized
  • Hampa afro-cubana: Los negros esclavos (The Afro-Cuban Underworld: The Black Slaves, 1916)
  • La fiesta afrocubana del 'Dia de Reyes' (The Afro-Cuban festival 'Day of Kings', 1920)
  • Historia de la arqueologia indocubana (History of Indocuban Archeology, 1922)
  • Glosario de afronegrismos (Black African Glossary, 1924)
  • Glosario de Cubanismos (Glossary of Cubanisms, 1924)
  • Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar (Cuba: Counterpoint of Tobacco and Sugar, 1940)
  • Marti y las razas (Martí and the Racial Issue , 1942)
  • Las cuatro culturas indias de Cuba (The four Indian cultures of Cuba, 1943)
  • El engaño de las razas (The Racial Fraud , 1945)
  • El huracán, su mitologia y sus símboles (The hurricane, its mythology and symbols, 1950)
  • Los Bailes y el teatro de los negros en el folklore de Cuba (Black Dances and Theater in Cuban Folklore, 1951)
  • La africania de la música afrocubana (The African in Afro-Cuban Music, 1955)
  • Los instrumentos de la música afrocubana (The instruments of Afro-Cuban music, 1955)
  • Historia de una pelea cubana contra los demonios (story of a Cuban fight against demons, 1959)

After his death appeared:

  • Bio-bibliografia de Fernando Ortiz (Bio-Bibliography of Fernando Ortíz, 1973)
  • Los negros curros (Black Dandies, 1986)

literature

  • Michael Zeuske: Black Caribbean. Slaves, Slavery Cultures, and Emancipation. Zurich: Rotpunktverlag, 2004.

Film adaptations

  • 1971: A Cuban battle against the demons ( Una pelea cubana contra los demonios ) - Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Ortiz Fernández, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ortiz, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban scientist, politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1969
Place of death Havana , Cuba