José Gorostiza
José María Gorostiza Alcalá (born November 10, 1901 in San Juan Bautista, today Villahermosa , Tabasco , Mexico , † March 16, 1973 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. He was a member of the Contemporáneos poetry group from 1928 to 1931 and was elected a member of the Mexican Academy of Language in 1954.
Life
His brother was the dramaturge Celestino Gorostiza . José María Gorostiza Alcalá attended school in Querétaro and Aguascalientes, then the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (Mexico) in Mexico City and the Colegio Francés de Mascarones . In 1925 he wrote his first volume of poetry. He holds a degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). In 1929 he was professor of literature at UNAM. In 1932 he received a professorship for recent history at the Escuela Normal Superior : in 1927 he was accredited at the embassy in London on the pay of a first-class chancellor. From 1932 to 1935 he was employed in the Secretaría de Educación Pública . From 1935 to 1937 he was in charge of public relations at the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE). In 1937 he was accredited as a third-class secretary at the embassy in Copenhagen . From 1937 to 1939 he was the private secretary of Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay . From 1939 to 1940 he was accredited as a first class secretary at the embassy in Rome. From 1940 to 1944 he was accredited at the embassy in Havana , where he was promoted to Cosejero in 1942 . In 1944 he headed the Politics Department in the SRE and in 1945 was a councilor in the delegation to the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco , and was also at the first meeting of the United Nations in New York in 1946 . In 1947 he was a delegate to the Rio de Janeiro Conference, and in 1948 a delegate to the Inter-American Conference in Bogota. From 1950 to 1951 he was ambassador to the Netherlands and Greece. From 1951 to 1953 he was Mexico's replacement representative for Luis Padilla Nervo on the changing seat of the United Nations Security Council . In 1964 he was State Secretary in the SRE. From 1965 to 1970 he headed the Comisión Nacional de Energía Nuclear (CNEN).
Awards
- 1956: Large Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1958: Large silver medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
- 1968: Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes (Mexico)
Works and editions
- Canciones para cantar en las barcas , 1925
- Muerte sin fin , 1939
- Poesía: Notas sobre poesia and Del Poema Frustrado , 1964
- Prose , Essays, 1969
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Fernando González de la Loza |
Mexican Ambassador in The Hague February 16, 1950 to August 7, 1951 |
Eduardo Sánchez Torres |
|
Mexican Ambassador to Athens September 25, 1950 to August 7, 1951 |
Ramón Beteta |
Web links
- Literature by and about José Gorostiza in the catalog of the German National Library
- Poems in a bilingual edition Spanish / German by Rimbaud Verlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Embajadores de México
- ^ Roderic Ai Camp, Mexican political biographies, 1935-1993
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gorostiza, José |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gorostiza Alcalá, José María (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villahermosa |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1973 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |