James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

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James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (born June 20, 1858 in Glasgow , † November 30, 1923 in Sydenham , Outer London ) was a British Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

James Kelly, who later added his mother's name to his name and called himself James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, learned Spanish as a child. He attended St Charles's Catholic College in Kensington and turned to literary journalism. In 1885 he went to Jerez de la Frontera as a private tutor and from there to Madrid in order to socialize with literary circles, among others he was friends with Juan Valera and Gaspar Núñez de Arce .

In 1886 he went back to England and published important books on Spanish literary history, which eventually earned him Hispanic teaching posts and chairs, in 1908 as a lecturer at Cambridge University , from 1909 to 1916 on the Gilmour Chair at the University of Liverpool and from 1909 to 1916 From 1916 until his retirement in 1920 on the Cervantes Chair at the University of London, which was set up for him .

Fitzmaurice-Kelly was a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española (1895), the Real Academia Historica (1912) and the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona (1914). In 1906 he was elected a member of the British Academy . He was Commander of the Order de Alfonso XII. (1905).

Works (selection)

  • The life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra . A biographical literary, and historical study, with a tentative bibliography from 1585 to 1892, and an annotated appendix on the Canto de Calíope, London 1892, Buenos Aires 1944, Whitefish 2005 (Spanish: London 1917)
  • A history of Spanish Literature , London 1898
    • Spanish: Historia de la literatura española , desde los orígenes hasta el año 1900, Madrid 1901, with an introduction by Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo , 4th edition 1926
    • French: Littérature espagnole , Paris 1904, 1913, 1921 ( Histoires des Littératures )
    • German: History of Spanish Literature , ed. by Adalbert Hämel , Heidelberg 1925
    • A New history of Spanish literature , Oxford 1926, New York 1968 (French: Histoire de la litérature espagnole , Paris 1928, 1939)
  • Lope de Vega and the Spanish drama , Glasgow 1902 (Taylorian Lecture at Oxford University)
  • (Ed.) Cervantes, Galatea , Glasgow 1903
  • Chapters on Spanish literature , London 1908 (Spanish: Lecciones de literatura española , Madrid 1910 with foreword by Rufino José Cuervo ; Czech: Prague 1912)
  • Bibliographie de l'histoire de la littérature espagnole , Paris 1913
  • (Ed.) The Oxford Book of Spanish verse XIIIth century-XXth century , Oxford 1913, 1929, 1953
  • (Ed.) Cambridge readings in Spanish literature , Cambridge 1920
  • Fray Luis de Leon. A biographical fragment , Oxford 1921
  • Spanish literature. A primer , Oxford 1922
  • Spanish bibliography , Oxford 1925

literature

  • Revue Hispanique 60, 137, 1924 (commemorative publication, English, with appreciations by Oliver Elton and Aubrey FG Bell, as well as a list of publications)
  • John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald , "James Fitzmaurice-Kelly", in: Bulletin of Spanish Studies 7, 27, 1930, pp. 129-135
  • William J. Entwistle , "Kelly, James Fitzmaurice- (1857-1923)", in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kelly, James Fitzmaurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1923
Place of death Sydenham , Outer London