John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald
John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald (born May 2, 1873 in Newark , New Jersey , † June 8, 1946 ) was an American Romance scholar and Hispanist .
life and work
Fitz-Gerald studied at Columbia College as well as in Berlin , Leipzig , Paris (with Gaston Paris and Alfred Morel-Fatio ) and Madrid . He received his doctorate in 1906 from Columbia University with the work Versification of the "cuaderna via" as found in Berceo's Vida de santo Domingo de Silos (New York 1905, 1966). From 1909 to 1929 he taught at the University of Illinois , from 1915 as a professor of Spanish, from 1925 for Romance studies. From 1929 until his retirement in 1943 he was a professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson .
Fitz-Gerald was President of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) from 1921 to 1923. He was a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española and a knight of the Orden de Isabel la Católica.
Other works
- (Ed.) Gonzalo de Berceo, La vida de Santo Domingo de Silos , Paris 1904
- Rambles in Spain , New York 1910
- (Ed.) Lope de Vega, Novelas à la Señora Marcia Leonarda , in: Romanische Forschungen 34, 1913
- (Ed. And translator with Thatcher Howland Guild) Manuel Tamayo y Baus, A New Drama (Un Drama Nuevo). A Tragedy in three acts, New York 1915
- Importance of Spanish to the American citizen , Chicago 1918
- Apuntes sobre la literatura americana (de los Estados Unidos de América), Madrid 1924
- The Hispanic society of America y la fiesta de la Raza , Madrid 1924
- Relaciones hispano-americanas. Dos conferencias leídas en el Ateneo científico-literario-artistico de Madrid en los días 29 and 30 de junio de 1923 , Madrid 1924
- (Ed. With John McMurry Hill ), Manuel Tamayo y Baus, Un drama nuevo , drama en tres actos, Chicago / New York 1924
- (Ed. With Alberto Nin Frías ) José Enrique Rodó , Ariel , Chicago / New York 1928
- (Ed. With Pauline Taylor) Todd memorial volumes. Philological studies , New York 1930, Freeport 1968
literature
- Henry Grattan Doyle, "Passing of Two Hispanists", in: Hispania 1946, p. 411
- James McKeen Cattell, Leaders in Education. A biographical directory , Lancaster 1932 sv
Web links
- Literature by and about John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fitz-Gerald, John Driscoll |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fitz-Gerald, John D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance philologist and Hispanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newark , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1946 |