Gregorio Mayans y Siscar

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Gregorio Mayans y Siscar

Gregorio Mayans y Siscar (born May 9, 1699 in Oliva , † December 21, 1781 in Valencia ) was a Spanish lawyer , historian , philologist , Romance scholar and Hispanist .

Mayans studied law in Valencia and Salamanca. From 1723 he taught law in Valencia, but was ousted from this position in 1730 and went to Madrid as royal librarian. From 1740 he lived as a scholar in Oliva and led Europe-wide correspondence, which was published in 25 volumes. Mayans is one of the most important figures in the Spanish Enlightenment .

In 1763 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Publications (selection)

  • Orígenes de la lengua española compuestos por varios autores , 2 vols., Madrid 1737, 1873, 1981
  • La Vie de Michel de Cervantes Saavedra , Amsterdam 1740 (Spanish original 1738)
  • Gramática de la lengua latina , Valencia 1771
  • Rhetórica , 2 vols., Valencia 1786, Oviedo 1989
  • Epistolario , ed. by Antonio Mestre, 25 vols., Valencia 1972–2011
  • Obras completas , ed. by Antonio Mestre, 5 vols., Valencia 1983–1986
    • 1. Historia
    • 2. Literatura
    • 3. Retórica
    • 4. Regalismo y jurisprudencia
    • 5. Ensayos y varia

literature

Spanish
  • Antonio Mestre, El Mundo intelectual de Mayans , Valencia 1978
  • Jesús Pérez Magallón, En torno a las ideas literarias de Mayans , Alicante 1991
  • María José Martínez Alcalde, Las ideas lingüísticas de Gregorio Mayans , Valencia 1992
  • Antonio Mestre, Don Gregorio Mayans y Siscar entre la erudición y la política , Valencia 1999
  • Jaime Siles, Mayans o El fracaso de la inteligencia , Valencia 2000
  • Antonio Mestre, Mayans y Siscar y el pensamiento illustrado español contra el absolustismo , León 2007
  • Antonio Mestre, Mayans y la cultura valenciana en la España del siglo XVIII , Oliva 2010
German
  • Hans-Josef Niederehe, On the relationship between the history of science and the history of language, in: Werner Hüllen (Ed.), Understanding the Historiography of Linguistics. Problems and Projects , Münster 1990, 75–86 (here: 79–82)
  • Manfred Tietz, The 18th Century, in: Christoph Strosetzki (Ed.), History of Spanish Literature , Tübingen 1991, pp. 226–280 (here: 242)
  • Gerda Haßler , Change of Position in the Treatment of Linguistic Diversity, in: Lingua et Traditio , ed. by Richard Baum et al., Tübingen 1994, pp. 43–56 (here: 49f.)
  • Jan-Henrik Witthaus , Socialization of Criticism in the Spain of Enlightened Absolutism from Feijoo to Jovellanos , Frankfurt am Main 2013

Web links

Commons : Gregori Maians  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 162.
personal data
SURNAME Mayans y Siscar, Gregorio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish lawyer, historian, philologist, Romance philologist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Oliva
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1781
Place of death Valencia