Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira

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Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira (born August 11, 1851 in Barcelona , † February 17, 1934 in Cruz Quebrada - Dafundo ) was a Spanish poet, Romanist and Hispanist who worked in England.

Life

Arteaga studied in Barcelona and was there, as well as in Madrid, high school teacher for Latin, history and Spanish literature. He went to England in 1890 and toured the American continent on behalf of a railway construction company. From 1893 he was assistant to Henry Butler Clarke at the Taylor Institution (for European languages) at Oxford University and was his successor as a teacher of Spanish in 1894. From 1907 he was a lecturer at Oxford, from 1921 until his retirement in 1927 professor of Spanish. He was also a lecturer in Spanish and Italian at the University of Birmingham from 1909 to 1927 .

Arteaga was in contact with Àngel Guimerà , Benito Pérez Galdós and Manuel Machado , and also with Frederick York Powell .

Fernando de Arteaga was the brother of the poet José María Arteaga Pereira (1846-1913).

Works

Fiction

  • Fuera y dentro. Escritos en verso y prosa , Barcelona 1879
  • (Translator with E. de Vaudrey) Bret Harte , Bocetos californianos , Barcelona 1883
  • Celebridades musicales o sea biografías de los hombres más eminentes en la música , Barcelona 1886 (with Felip Pedrell y Francisco Viada)
  • Quinientos cantares , Barcelona 1897
  • (Translator) Arthur Conan Doyle , La guerra en Sud África. Sus causas y modo de hacerla , London 1902
  • (Ed.) Nine Spanish poems , London 1909
  • Coplas sin nombre de autor sacadas de un manuscrito , Oxford 1915
  • Tierras amigas. Poesías , Oxford 1922
  • (Ed.) Tierra y raza (Cuentos españoles) , London 1923

Hispanic Studies

  • Practical Spanish. A grammar of the Spanish language , London 1902
  • A new English and Spanish vocabulary alphabetical and analogical , London 1902
  • (Editor) Karl-Marquard Sauer, Spanish conversation-grammar , Heidelberg 1904
  • Correspondencia comercial española , Heidelberg 1907, 1922
  • Spanish Reading Book / Lectures espagnoles / A Spanish Reader , Heidelberg 1909 (Gaspey-Otto-Sauer method)

literature

  • Edgar Allison Peers , In memoriam Fernando de Arteaga, in: Bulletin of Spanish Studies 11, 42, 1934, pp. 92ff
  • Matilde Gallardo, The teaching of Spanish as a foreign language at the University of Oxford. Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira and his 'Practical Spanish, a Grammar of the Spanish Language' (1902), in: History of Linguistics 1996. 2. From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics , ed. by David Cram, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak, Amsterdam 1999, pp. 227-232
  • Matilde Gallardo Barbarroja, Introducción y desarrollo del español en el sistema universitario inglés durante el siglo XIX, in: Estudios de Lingüística del Español 20, 2003 ( http://elies.rediris.es/elies20/ )

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personal data
SURNAME Arteaga y Pereira, Fernando de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish poet, Romanist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1934
Place of death Cruz Quebrada - Dafundo