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Gabriel Méndez Plancarte (born January 24, 1905 in Zamora (Mexico) , † December 16, 1949 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican cleric , poet, researcher of humanism , Romanist , Hispanic and Mexicanist.

life and work

Méndez Plancarte studied philosophy and theology in Rome, was ordained a priest in 1927 and studied sociology at the Catholic University of Leuven . From 1932 he taught at the Seminario Conciliar in Mexico City. Visiting professorships took him to San Antonio and Quebec . In 1937 he founded the magazine Ábside. Revista de cultura mexicana. Literatura. Historia. Filosofía (until 1979). In 1946 he became a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua .

Gabriel Méndez Plancarte was the brother of Alfonso Méndez Plancarte . At the National Autonomous University of Mexico , an extraordinary chair (Cátedra extraordinaria Gabriel y Alfonso Méndez) has been named after the brothers since 2000.

Works

  • Primicias , Mexico City 1927 (seal)
  • Horacio en México , Mexico City 1937
  • (Ed.) Humanistas del siglo XVIII , Mexico City 1941
  • Salmos , 1942 (poetry)
  • (Ed.) Bello , Mexico City 1943 ( Andrés Bello )
  • Hidalgo. Reformador intelectual , Mexico City 1945 ( Miguel Hidalgo )
  • (Ed.) Humanismo mexicano del siglo XVI , Mexico City 1946, 1994
  • (Ed.) Guillén de Lamport y su "Regio salterio", ms. latino inédito de 1655 , Mexico City 1948
  • El humanismo mexicano , Mexico City 1970

literature

  • Ábside 1950, January – June (memorial)
  • Hermann von Bertrab, Un humanista moderno (Gabriel Méndez Plancarte), Mexico City 1956
  • Humanismo y literatura. Correspondencia entre Alfonso Reyes y Gabriel y Alfonso Méndez Plancarte 1937-1954 , ed. by Alberto Enríquez Perea, Mexico City 2006
  • Jesús Iván Mora Muro, El catolocismo frente a la modernidad. Gabriel Méndez Plancarte y la revista Ábside, in: Relaciones 32, 126, 2011, pp. 139–170

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personal data
SURNAME Méndez Plancarte, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican cleric, poet, researcher of humanism, Romanist, Hispanic and Mexicanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Zamora (Mexico)
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1949
Place of death Mexico city