Jorge M. Furt
Jorge M. Furt (born May 20, 1902 in Buenos Aires , † February 7, 1971 in Luján ) was an Argentine Romance philologist , Hispanist , writer and private scholar.
life and work
Furt was a student of Eleuterio Felipe Tiscornia . From 1924 to 1929 he made an educational trip through Europe. He left the “Archivo y biblioteca Jorge M. Furt” on the “Los Talas” estate near Luján , an important library with valuable archive materials, namely on Juan Bautista Alberdi .
In Buenos Aires , the Centro de Investigaciones Filológicas “Jorge M FURT”, which is dependent on the Escuela de Humanidades of the Universidad Nacional de General San Martín (UNSAM), is named after him.
Works
- Cancionero popular rioplatense. Lírica gauchesca , 2 vols., Buenos Aires 1923
- Arte gauchesco. Motivos de poesía , Buenos Aires 1924
- (Ed.) La leyenda de fray Luis Bolaños , Florence 1926 (also in: Libro de prosa , 1932)
- Coreografía gauchesca, apuntes para su estudio , Buenos Aires 1927
- Lo gauchesco en "La literatura argentina" de Ricardo Rojas , Buenos Aires 1929
- Antología gauchesca, ordenada y prologada , Buenos Aires 1930
- Libro de prosa, Buenos Aires 1932
- Esteban Echeverría , Buenos Aires 1938
- Niobe. Estudio , Buenos Aires 1943
- Libro de compañía , Buenos Aires 1947
- (Ed.) Luis de Tejeda, Libro de variosertrados y noticias , Buenos Aires 1947
- (Ed. With Miguel Romera-Navarro ) Baltasar Gracián , El discreto , Buenos Aires 1960
literature
- Sara Sabor Vila, [Obituary] in: Revista de Historia de América 72, Jul. - Dec. 1971, pp. 541-542
- María Adela L. de Fernández de Monjardín, Jorge Martín Furt. Un argentino trascendente , City Bell 1983
- Oscar Caeiro, Imagen de Córdoba en la poesia de Jorge M. Furt , Luján 1983
- Constante O. Paladino, Italia en el pensamiento y en la obra de Jorge M. Furt , City Bell 1985
- Ricardo Rodríguez, Biblioteca y Archivo Furt , Buenos Aires 1991
- Germán Orduna, Catálogo descriptivo de los impresos en español, del siglo XVI, en la Biblioteca "Jorge M. Furt" (Los Talas, Luján, Pcia. De Bs. As.-Argentina) , Buenos Aires 1991
- Eduardo Ovalles, Catálogo de la biblioteca antigua de Jorge M. Furt , Buenos Aires 1994
Web links
- Literature by and about Jorge M. Furt in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.folkloredelnorte.com.ar/creadores/furt.htm
- http://www.unsam.edu.ar/escuelas/humanidades/centros/c_furt/_presentacion.asp
- http://www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/crla/contenidos/Site_Furt/Home_bis.html (with picture)
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SURNAME | Furt, Jorge M. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ford, Jorge Martín |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian Romance philologist, Hispanist, writer and private scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1902 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |
DATE OF DEATH | 7th February 1971 |
Place of death | Lujan |