José María Jiménez de Alcalá

José María Jiménez de Alcalá (* in the 18th century; † in the 19th century) was a Spanish Romance philologist and Hispanist who worked as a university teacher in England.

Life

Jiménez de Alcalá studied law and became professor of philosophy at the University of Seville . In 1814 he went to London and worked as a Spanish teacher.

He applied for the first English professorship in Spanish at University College London , founded in 1826 , but lost to Antonio Alcalá Galiano . Instead, he filled the chair of Spanish from 1834 to 1840, which had become vacant due to the untimely death of Pablo de Mendíbil, at King's College London . Then he returned to Seville. His successor was Ángel de Villalobos .

From 1834 he published the journal El Instructor ó Repertorio de Historia, Bellas Letras y Artes (1834–1841), published by Rudolph Ackermann , which was mainly read in South America. Here too, Villalobos succeeded him in 1840.

Jiménez published a grammar of Spanish in 1833, which saw a second edition in 1840 and was reissued in 1998.

Works

• (Translator) Andrew Ure : Diccionario de Química , London 1821 (English original: Dictionary of Chemistry , London 1820)
• Compendio histórico de la Santa Biblia , 2 vols., London 1825, Bogotá 1849
  • Historia de la Santa Biblia , 2 vols., Paris 1840
• A grammar of the Spanish language for the use of students in King's College (London 1833) reproduced in facsimile from the second edition (1840), ed. by David Hook, London 1998

literature

• Vicente Llorens : Liberales y románticos. Una emigración española en Inglaterra 1823-1834 , Mexico City 1954, Madrid 1968, 1979, 2006, 2011
• Matilde Gallardo Barbarroja: "Introducción y desarrollo del Español en el sistema universitario inglés durante el siglo XIX", in: Estudios de Lingüística del Español 20, 2003 ( http://elies.rediris.es/elies20/ )