Juan B. Delgado Altamirano
Juan B. Delgado Altamirano (born August 26, 1868 in Santiago de Querétaro , † March 8, 1929 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican ambassador and poet.
Life
Juan B. Delgado Altamirano was the third son of Etelvina Altamirano y Monterde and Coronel Juan María Delgado Amaya. He was baptized in the name of Juan Federico Francisco de Jesús. His father died in 1874. He was financially supported by Eduardo Altamirano Monterde the brother and Fernando Altamirano Carbajal the half-brother of his mother.
First studied Latin in Queretaro for four years at the seminary. Then he went to Mexico City, where he graduated from the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (Mexico) and at the Instituto Médico Nacional , the Uncle Fernando Altamirano Carbajal directed medicine. In 1894 returned to Queretaro and published his first book Juveniles .
He sent a copy to José Manuel Othon on April 27, 1894. From the correspondence that developed thereupon, Othon's letters were published by Jesus Zavala under the title Epistolario de Othón . He accompanied the staff of the Instituto Médico Nacional on excursions to the Sierra Petatlan. He did not pursue medical studies any further, but became an excursion guide from 1895 to 1897. These trips inspired the poet to write his book Natura, published under the title Canciones del Sur .
In 1907 Delgado lived in Monterrey, Nuevo León as director of the city library and teacher at a school.
On March 26th, 1908 Delgado married María de Jesús Gómez de la Cortina civilly in the chapel, in Querétaro and in church the following day. In 1908, Delgado entered the foreign service and was appointed consul in Managua, which inspired him to write El País de Rubén Darío , published in Paris. In 1908 he became a member of the Arcadia in Rome under the name Alicandro Epirótico.
In 1909 he was employed in the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores and was in charge of the fine arts of Prepa. In 1912 he was entrusted with diplomatic missions in Madrid and Paris.
Within the Mexican revolutionary movement, he sided with Venustiano Carranza , and worked with the government in Mexico and Queretaro.
In 1916 he published his anthology of revolutionary poetry, one of the first poems to be compiled from this new stage in the country (?). In 1918 he became a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua and when José López Portillo y Rojas died in 1923, he was elected to its seat number four.
In 1919 he was promoted to first class secretary and sent to the embassy in Rome.
In 1923 he returned to Mexico, where he worked in the General Claims Commission until 1926. From 1923 to 1926 he was a member of the Comisión General de Reclamaciones entre México y los Estados Unidos .
In 1926 he was retired because of heart disease. In June 1923 he became a Fellow of the Mexican Academy of Language, where he took over the chair number IV as the successor to Don José López Portillo y Rojas [5].
Poetic work
- Juveniles, 1894
- Natura, 1898
- Canciones del Sur, 1900
- El Poema de los Árboles (también en 1907), 1901
- El País de Rubén Darío, 1908
- Gesta de mi Ciudad, 1913
- Alma Vernácula, 1914
- Florilegio de Poetas Revolucionarios (Antología), 1916
- París y otros Poemas, 1919
- Bajo el Haya de Títiro, 1920
- El Cancionero Nómada, 1922
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| José Almaraz |
Mexican Ambassador to Managua December 4, 1920 to January 13, 1923 |
Eduardo Ruiz |
| Alberto C. Franco |
Mexican Ambassador to Guatemala December 4, 1920 to January 12, 1921 |
Luis Caballero |
| Alfonso Herrera Salcedo |
Mexican ambassador in Tegucigalpa December 4, 1920 to April 1, 1921 |
Juan de Dios Bojórquez |
| Antonio Mediz Bolio |
Mexican Ambassador to Bogotá September 1921 to March 10, 1922 |
José Maximiliano Alfonso de Rosenzweig Díaz |
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Antonio Hernández Ferrer |
Mexican Ambassador to San Salvador March 19, 1921 to March 28, 1921 |
José María Ferrer |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gabriel Méndez Plancarte, Ábside: Volume 29, 1965 (template of the Castilan biography)
- ↑ Percy Alvin Martín, Manoel Cardozo, Who's who in Latin America : a biographical dictionary of the outstanding living men and women of Spanish America and Brazil, Stanford University Press, 1935, 438 p. 244
- ↑ Embajadores de México
- ↑ a b Embajadores de México
- ↑ Embajadores de México
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delgado Altamirano, Juan B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Juan Federico Francisco de Jesús; el poeta de los alacranes; Alicandro Epirótico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican ambassador and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Querétaro |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1929 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |