Irving A. Leonard

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Irving Albert Leonard (born December 1, 1896 in New Haven (Connecticut) , † August 30, 1996 in Alexandria (Virginia) ) was an American historian, Romanist and Hispanist.

life and work

Leonard graduated from Yale University in 1918. Then he spent several years in the Philippines . He studied further at the University of California at Berkeley (Master 1928). There he received his doctorate in 1928 with the work Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. His life and works 1645-1700 . He toured Latin America and Europe and worked for the Rockefeller Foundation from 1937 to 1940 .

From 1940 to 1942 he taught Spanish and history at Brown University . In 1942 he went to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as a professor of Latin American literature. He held the Richard Hudson Research Professorship in History and, from 1962, the Domingo Faustino Sarmiento University Professorship of Spanish-American History and Literature. In 1966 he retired.

Leonard was a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua .

Works

Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora

  • Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. A Mexican savant of the seventeenth century , Berkeley 1929
  • Ensayo bibliografico de Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora , Mexico 1929
  • (Ed.) Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Poemas , con un estudio preliminar de E. Abreu Gómez, Madrid 1931
  • (Ed. And translator) The Mercurio volante of Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. An account of the first expedition of Don Diego de Vargas into New Mexico in 1692 , Los Angeles 1932, New York 1967
  • (Ed.) Alboroto y motín de México del 8 de junio de 1692. Relación de don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora en una carta dirigida al almirante don Andrés de Pez , Mexico 1932
  • (Ed.) Documentos inéditos de don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. La Real Universidad de México y don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. El reconocimiento de la Bahía de Santa María de Galve , Mexico 1963
  • (Preface to) Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Seis obras , ed. by William G. Bryant, Caracas 1984

Further monographs

  • Romances of chivalry in the Spanish Indies , Berkeley 1933
  • (with Robert Kilburn Spaulding ) Spanish in review , New York 1938; ud T. Spanish review grammar , New York 1945, 1967
  • Books of the Brave. Being an account of books and of men in the Spanish conquest and settlement of the sixteenth-century New World , Cambridge, Mass. 1949, New York 1964, Berkeley 1992 (Spanish: Los libros del conquistador , Mexico 1953, 1959, 1979; La Habana 1983; Berkeley 1999)
  • Baroque Times in Old Mexico. Seventeenth-Century Persons, Places and Practices , Ann Arbor 1959, Westport, Conn. 1981 (HE Bolton Prize [later Bolton-Johnson Prize]; Spanish: La época barroca en el México colonial , Mexico 1974)
  • When bikehood was in flower. Sketches of early cycling , South Tamworth, NH 1969
  • Portraits and essays. Historical and literary sketches of early Spanish America , ed. by William C. Bryant, Newark, Del. 1986 (Spanish: Ensayos y semblanzas. Bosquejos historicos y literarios de la America Latina colonial , Mexico 1990)

Further editing activities

  • (Ed. With Robert Kilburn Spaulding ) Jacinto Benavente, Los malhechores del bien , New York 1933
  • (Ed.) Lope de Vega, El desdén vengado , Madrid 1935
  • (Ed.) Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo, Obras dramáticas , Santiago de Chile 1937
  • (Ed. And translator) Spanish approach to Pensacola 1689-1693 , Albuquerque 1939, New York 1967
  • (Ed.) Jerónimo de Vivar, Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los Reynos de Chile , Santiago de Chile 1960 (?)
  • (Ed.) Colonial travelers in Latin America , New York 1972 (Spanish: Viajeros por la América latina colonial , Mexico 1992)
  • (Ed.) The Florida adventures of Kirk Munroe. Narrative and biographical , Chuluota, Fla. 1975

literature

  • Homage to Irving A. Leonard. Essays on Hispanic art, history, and literature , ed. by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Donald A. Yates, Ann Arbor 1977 (with list of publications)
  • John J. Tepaske: An Interview with Irving A. Leonard, in: The Hispanic American Historical Review 63, 1983, pp. 233-253

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personal data
SURNAME Leonard, Irving A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leonard, Irving Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, Romanist, and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven (Connecticut)
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1996
Place of death Alexandria (Virginia)