Joaquín Gimeno Casalduero

Joaquín Gimeno Casalduero (born September 8, 1931 in Madrid - † April 25, 2014 ) was a Spanish-American Romanist , Hispanic , Medievalist and historian .

life and work

Gimeno studied at the University of Murcia from 1949 to 1954 . In 1955 he went to the Lexicographical Institute of the Real Academia Española in Madrid. In 1956 he received his doctorate in Murcia with the work Elementos naturalistas en la obra novelística de Pérez Galdós and went to Harvard University as an instructor . Then he was from 1959 at the University of California, Riverside Assistant Professor, from 1964 Associate Professor and from 1965 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Full Professor. From there he went to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1972 and from 1980 until his retirement in 1993 to the University of California at Los Angeles .

Joaquín Gimeno Casalduero was the nephew of Joaquín Casalduero .

La imagen del monarca en la Castilla del siglo XIV. Pedro el Cruel, Enrique II y Juan I , Madrid 1972
Estructura y diseño en la literatura castellana medieval , Madrid 1975
La creación literaria de la Edad Media y del Renacimiento , Madrid 1977
El misterio de la talkción y la cultura medieval , Murcia 1988
El secreto de los Casalduero , Murcia 2006

Spains's Literary Legacy. Studies in Spanish Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. Essays in Honor of Joaquín Gimeno Casalduero , ed. by Katherine Gyékényesi Gatto and Ingrid Bahler, New Orleans 2005

http://www.um.es/tonosdigital/znum12/secciones/perfiles%20A-Joaquin%20Gimeno.htm (Appreciation by Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga, Spanish, with picture, in: Revista electrónica de estudios filológicos 12, 2006)

personal data
SURNAME	Gimeno Casalduero, Joaquín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hispanic-American Romance philologist, Hispanist, Medievalist, and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Madrid
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 2014