German Orduna

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Germán Orduna (born August 8, 1926 in San Martín , † December 15, 1999 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine Romanist , Hispanic and Medievalist .

life and work

Orduna studied in Buenos Aires and Salamanca and graduated in 1954. From 1957 he lectured at the University of Buenos Aires . A two-year study visit with Hugo Friedrich at the University of Freiburg from 1961 to 1963 was decisive for his academic career .

Orduna received her doctorate from Ángel José Battistessa in Buenos Aires in 1977 with the thesis (ed.) Pero López de Ayala, Rimado de palacio (Pisa 1981, Madrid 1987) and held the chair for Spanish Medieval Literature there from 1987 until his death .

In 1978 he founded the "Seminario de Edición y Crítica Textual (SECRIT)", which bears his name today, and in 1981 his magazine Incipit .

Orduna was a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia Española (1992).

Other works

Monographs

  • The "Libro de Buen Amor" and the libro del arcipreste , 1988
  • (with Lilia EF de Orduna) Catálogo descriptivo de los impresos en español, del siglo XVI, en la biblioteca Jorge M Furt , Buenos Aires 1991
  • (Contribution) Don Juan Manuel , El conde Lucanor , ed. by Guillermo Serés, Barcelona 1994, 2006
  • El arte narrativo y poético del canciller Ayala , Madrid 1998
  • Ecdótica. Problemática de la edición de textos , Kassel 2000
  • (with others) Estudios sobre la variación textual. Prose castellana de los siglos XIII a XVI , Buenos Aires 2001
  • Fundamentos de crítica textual , ed. by Leonardo Funes and José Manuel Lucía Megías, Madrid 2005

Editorial activity

  • Gonzalo de Berceo, Vida de Sto. Domingo de Silos , Salamanca 1968
  • Don Juan Manuel, Libro del conde Lucanor et de Patronio , Buenos Aires 197
  • Selección de romances viejos de España y América , Buenos Aires 1976
  • Pero López de Ayala, Crónica del rey don Pedro y del rey don Enrique, su hermano, hijos del rey don Alfonso Onceno , 2 vols., Buenos Aires 1994–1997

literature

  • Studia in honorem Germán Orduna , ed. by Leonardo Funes and José Luis Moure, Alcalá de Henares 2001 (with appreciation and list of publications, Spanish)
  • Ofelia Kovacci, Germán Orduna, in: Bulletin of Spanish Studies 77, 2000, pp. 365–367
  • Alan Deyermond , German Orduna (1926-1999). A British View, in: Bulletin of Spanish Studies 78, 2001, pp. 259-261

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personal data
SURNAME Orduna, German
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian Romanist , Hispanic and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH San Martín (Buenos Aires)
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1999
Place of death Buenos Aires