Juan Nicasio Gallego

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Juan Nicasio Gallego (19th century engraving in the Spanish National Library ).

Juan Nicasio Gallego (born December 14, 1777 in Zamora , † January 9, 1853 in Madrid ) was a Spanish poet .

Live and act

Gallego studied in Salamanca and was ordained a priest in 1800 . In 1805 he became court chaplain and spiritual director of the Page Institute in Madrid . His work on the defense of Buenos Aires against the attacks of the English was recognized in 1807, as was his Elegia al Dos de Mayo in 1808, which deals with the popular uprising in Madrid on May 2, 1808 against the French. In another attack by the French in December 1808, he fled Madrid with the government.

After his return, he was initially a member of the Cortes of Cádiz , the parliament that was established during the Napoleonic occupation of Spain, for three years , but after the restoration was sent to a Carthusian monastery in Andalusia, where he wrote more poems. After the revolution of 1820 he became Canon of the Metropolitan Church of Seville , later a member of the General Directorate of Studies and Royal Council in Madrid, and permanent secretary of the Royal Academy. He died in Madrid in 1853.

Works

His poems, consisting of elegies , odes , epistles, sonnets, etc., are mostly classically shaped and were published by the Spanish Academy in 1856. They were printed in Volume 67 in Ribadeneyra's “ Biblioteca de autores españoles ”.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Juan Nicasio Gallego  - Sources and full texts (Spanish)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gallego . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 6, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 854.
personal data
SURNAME Gallego, Juan Nicasio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Zamora
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1853
Place of death Madrid