Guillermo Araya Goubet

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Guillermo Araya Goubet (born April 30, 1931 in Santiago de Chile , † February 28, 1983 in Amsterdam ) was a Chilean Romanist and Hispanist who emigrated to Europe .

life and work

Araya studied Spanish, Latin and Greek in Santiago de Chile (graduating in 1955), then toured South America and Europe. In 1957 he founded the Spanish department of the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia with Eleazar Huerta Valcárcel , where he taught linguistics, headed the university library (1962–1964) and was professor and dean from 1964 (1964–1973).

He spent 1964 on a Humboldt scholarship at the University of Cologne. He received his doctorate in 1968 and was visiting professor at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1968 to 1970 . In 1971 he founded and directed the Chilean Society for Linguistics.

As an applicant for the office of rector of his university, he was surprised by the 1973 coup of Augusto Pinochet , his contract of service was terminated and he himself was held in prison for three months. In 1974 he emigrated to Europe, was professor associé for three years at the University of Bordeaux III (1975 Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation ) and from 1977 until his death he held a full professorship for Spanish at the University of Amsterdam .

Araya was the founding editor of the Revista de Estudios Filológicos magazine (1965), the Literatura Chilena magazine . Creación y crítica (with Armando Cassígoli and David Valjalo ), as well as the journal Diálogos Hispánicos de Amsterdam (with Henk Haverkate and Kitty Marguerite van Leuven-Zwart ), as well as the Biblioteca hispanoamericana y española de Amsterdam (BHEA, 1982 ff).

A chair at the University of Valdivia is named after him.

Works

Monographs

  • A tlas lingüístico-etnográfico del sur de Chile (Alesuch). Preliminares y cuestionario , Valdivia 1968
  • Evolución del pensamiento histórico de Américo Castro , Madrid 1969
  • Claves filológicas para la comprensión de Ortega , Madrid 1971
  • De Garcilaso a García Lorca (Ocho estudios sobre letras españolas) , Amsterdam 1983
  • El pensamiento de America Castro. Estructura intercastiza de la historia de España , Madrid 1983

Editorial activity

  • Alonso de Ercilla y Zuñiga , La Araucana , Santiago de Chile 1969, 1979, 1990
  • Atlas lingüistíco-etnográfico del Sur de Chile (ALESUCH). Tomo I , Valdivia 1973
  • Cervantes, El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha , Santiago 1975
  • Alberto Blest Gana , Martín Rivas , Madrid 1981, 2004

literature

  • Literatura Chilena 7, 24, April / June 1983 (memorial, Spanish, with short biography and list of publications)

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personal data
SURNAME Araya Goubet, Guillermo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean Romanist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1983
Place of death Amsterdam