Guzmán Enrique Alvarez Pérez

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Guzmán Enrique Alvarez Pérez (born March 19, 1910 in Cabrillanes , León province , † August 14, 2004 in De Bilt ) was a Spanish Romance scholar , Hispanist and Asturianist who worked in the Netherlands.

life and work

Alvarez grew up in the province of León, attended the University of Education in León from 1924 to 1929 and studied at the University of Valladolid from 1932 . In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War , he was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 1937, was released in 1941 (subject to conditions that were not canceled until 1949) and studied in Madrid (graduated in 1944). In 1947 he received his doctorate there under Dámaso Alonso with the thesis El habla de Babia y Laciana (Madrid 1949, concerning the Asturian language ).

In 1949 he was in Paris on a scholarship, in 1951 he went to the University of Utrecht as a lecturer (lecturer) in Spanish . There he was full professor of Spanish from 1970 until his retirement in 1980. Visiting professorships took him to the University of Cincinnati in 1967 and to the University of Miami in 1976 .

Other works

  • Estampas de Babia , León 1951, 1981
  • Mateo Alemán , Buenos Aires 1953
  • El amor en la novela picaresca española , The Hague 1958
  • (Ed.) Sem Tob de Carrión ( Santob de Carrion ), Proverbios morales , Salamanca 1970
  • Lírica española del siglo XX. En busca de una trayectoria , León 1980
  • Una muerte diaria. El quehacer poético de Miguel Hernández , ed. by José María Balcells, León 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Alvarez Pérez, Guzmán Enrique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alvarez Pérez, GE; Alvarez, Guzmán
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Romanist, Hispanist and Asturianist who worked in the Netherlands
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Cabrillanes , Province of León
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2004
Place of death De Bilt