Hernán Núñez de Toledo

Reproduced portrait of Fernando Núñez de Toledo y Guzmán on a lithograph by Manuel Esquivel from a drawing by José López Enguídanos for the Retratos de españoles ilustres (1801)

Hernán Núñez de Toledo y Guzmán (also el Comendador Griego , el Pinciano or Fredenandus Nunius Pincianus ; * 1475 in Valladolid , † 1553 in Salamanca ) was a Spanish humanist , classical philologist and Bible translator.

Live and act

He was the son of Fernando Núñez de Toledo, a chamber clerk ( escribano de cámara ) of Henry IV and notary ( notario público ) as well as secretary and treasurer of Isabella of Castile . His mother came from the influential Guzmán family. Núñez received his studies in 1490 at the Spanish university in the Chiesa di San Clemente degli Spagnoli (Collegio di Spagna) in Bologna . He returned to Spain in 1498 and operated as preceptor , preceptor in the family Mendoza ( Pedro González de Mendoza ) in Granada . In Granada he continued to study the classical languages as well as Hebrew and Arabic .

Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros hired him to publish the Complutensic Polyglot . It was the first printed edition of the Bible in Greek, Latin and multilingual . In type area was used a column set , which presented the different languages in columns side by side. It was developed by a team of scholars, such as Diego López de Zúñiga , Jacobus Stunica († 1531) - he headed the edition and still had knowledge of Aramaic and Arabic -, Alfonso de Zamora (1476–1544), a Hebraist , and compiled and printed by Hernán Núñez de Toledo y Guzmán, a Latinist , between 1502 and 1517. The Complutensic Polyglot could not appear until 1520 due to a lack of papal approval ( imprimatur ), so Erasmus of Rotterdam was able to publish its edition beforehand.

In 1509 he translated the history of Bohemia, Historia Bohemica (1457), written by Enea Silvio Piccolomini ( Pius II ), into the Castilian language .

Nuñez was professor of rhetoric at the University of Alcalá , which had recently been founded. From 1519 he also taught Greek. During the Castilian Comuneros uprising , Guerra de las Comunidades de Castilla , Nuñez sympathized with the Comuneros .

In 1523, Aires de Figueiredo Barbosa , his predecessor at the chair at the University of Salamanca , received a call to the Portuguese court, where he took over the teaching of the Infante and later Cardinal Afonso de Portugal . The now vacant position was occupied by Núñez. At the age of 50 he retired from teaching.

Works

Glosa sobre las Trezientas de Juan de Mena , Seville (1499) y Granada (1505).
L. Annaei Senecae Opera , Basilea, 1529. Ten editions until 1627.
Observationes Fredenandi Pintiani in loca obscura et depravata Hist. Nature. C. Plinii , Salamanca, 1544.
Refranes, o Proverbios en romance . Salamanca, Juan de Canova 1555 digitized .
- Modern edition: Refranes o proverbios en romance (1555) de Hernán Núñez. Edición crítica de Louis Combet, Julia Sevilla, Germán Conde y Josep Guia. Madrid, Ediciones Guillermo Blázquez, 2001; 2 volumes.

literature

Juan Signes Codoñer, Carmen Codoñer Merino, Arantxa Domingo Malvadi: Biblioteca y epistolario de Hernán Núñez de Guzmán (El Pinciano). Una aproximación al humanismo español del siglo XVI , CSIC, Madrid 2001.
Louis Combet, Julia Sevilla, Germán Conde y Josep Guia: Estudio introductorio, en Refranes de la lengua castellana Salamanca, 1555. Also as a contemporary, critical edition Refranes o proverbios en romance (1555) de Hernán Núñez. Edición crítica de L. Combet, J. Sevilla, G. Conde y J. Guia. Madrid, Ediciones Guillermo Blázquez, 2001; 2 vols.
Abraham Madroñal: Los Refranes o Proverbios en Romance (1555), de Hernán Núñez Pinciano. RLit, LXIV, 127, 2002; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Licencia Creative Commons 3.0 España (by-nc) online
Heinz Schilling : 1517: One year world history. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 3-4067-0069-1
Martin Biersack: Mediating between text and context. Hernán Núñez de Toledo's vernacular humanism in Granada. In: Acting and Negotiating Contributions to the 22nd Young Romance Studies Forum , ed. v. Dagmar Schmelzer, Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf, Johanna Wolf, Antonia Kienberger, Elisabeth Bauer, pp. 163–176.

Web links

Digital copies at archive.org

Wikisource: Hernán Núñez de Toledo - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

^ "Núñez de Guzmán". UAH. Centro Virtual Cisneros. [1]
^ "Hernán Núñez de Toledo y Guzmán" MCN Biographies [2]
↑ "Complutense" is the adjective to designate the Roman settlement "Complutum" from which the city of Alcalá de Henares emerged .
↑ Heinz Schilling: 1517: Weltgeschichte einer Jahr. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 3-4067-0069-1 , pp. 232-236.
↑ The Historia Bohemica (1457) is a regional history of Bohemia, which was written in five books with a total of 72 chapters from the legendary beginnings to the legendary rulers and Georg von Podiebrad in the years 1457/1458. The end of the second book is about Jan Hus , the whole third book is about the Hussites and the campaigns triggered by the church dispute.

personal data
SURNAME	Núñez de Toledo, Hernán
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Comendador Griego; Pinciano; Fredenandus Nunius Pincianus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish philologist, university professor, Bible translator
DATE OF BIRTH	1475
PLACE OF BIRTH	Valladolid
DATE OF DEATH	1553
Place of death	Salamanca

[1] "Núñez de Guzmán". UAH. Centro Virtual Cisneros. [1]

[2] "Hernán Núñez de Toledo y Guzmán" MCN Biographies [2]

[3] "Complutense" is the adjective to designate the Roman settlement "Complutum" from which the city of Alcalá de Henares emerged .

[4] Heinz Schilling: 1517: Weltgeschichte einer Jahr. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 3-4067-0069-1 , pp. 232-236.

[5] The Historia Bohemica (1457) is a regional history of Bohemia, which was written in five books with a total of 72 chapters from the legendary beginnings to the legendary rulers and Georg von Podiebrad in the years 1457/1458. The end of the second book is about Jan Hus , the whole third book is about the Hussites and the campaigns triggered by the church dispute.