Julio Casares

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Julio Casares (born September 26, 1877 in Granada , † July 1, 1964 in Madrid ) was a Spanish diplomat, Romance scholar , Hispanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Julio Casares Sánchez was a violinist prodigy. He studied law and violin in Madrid. In 1896 he joined the language department of the Spanish Foreign Ministry, learned Japanese in Paris and spent two years in Japan. From 1915 to 1947 he headed the Department for Translation and Interpreting at the Ministry. From 1921 he was a member of the Real Academia Española , from 1936 its permanent secretary.

Casares was Spain's envoy to the League of Nations and active in several sub-committees of the General Assembly since 1921 , for example in the International Commission for Spiritual Cooperation with Henri Bergson , Einstein and Marie Curie . In 1925 the so-called "Casares Resolution" on history teaching in Europe was prepared, which the General Assembly of the League of Nations passed in 1926. This was intended to promote international understanding. Although it remained largely ineffective, it was expanded again in 1932 to include geography and social studies subjects.

Casares wrote an introduction to lexicography, which was important at the time, and a successful Spanish word-finding dictionary ( Diccionario ideológico ).

In Madrid a street is named after Julio Casares.

Works

lexicography

  • Nuevo Diccionario Francés-Español y Español-Francés, Madrid 1911
  • Novísimo diccionario inglés-español y español-inglés, Madrid 1914, 1925, 1940
  • Diccionario breve francés-español y español-francés, Madrid 1921
  • Nuevo concepto del diccionario de la lengua, Madrid, 1921
  • Nuevo concepto del diccionario de la lengua y otros problemas de lexicografía y gramática, Madrid 1941 (preface by Francisco Rodríguez Marín )
  • Diccionario ideológico de la lengua española , Barcelona 1942, 1948, 1957, 1959, 1966, 1969, 1973, 1985, 1992, 2004
  • Cosas del lenguaje. Etimología, lexicología, semántica, Madrid 1943, 1961, 1973
  • El idioma como instrumento y el diccionario como símbolo, Madrid 1944
  • Ante el proyecto de un Diccionario Histórico, Madrid 1948
  • Introducción a la lexicografía moderna , Madrid 1950, 1969, 1992 (preface by Walther von Wartburg ; Russian Moscow 1958)
  • (Ed.) Diccionario histórico de la lengua espanola, Madrid 1960-1993
  • Novedades en el "Diccionario académico", Madrid 1963, 1965

Literary criticism

  • Crítica profana. Valle Inclán. Azorín. Ricardo León, Madrid 1915, 1916, 1931, 1946, 1964
  • Crítica efímera. I. Divertimientos filológicos, Madrid 1918, 1947
  • Crítica efímera. II. Índice de lecturas. Galdós. Palacio Valdés. Unamuno. Blasco Ibáñez. Miró, etc., Madrid 1919, 1944, 1962
  • El humorismo y otros ensayos, Madrid 1961

literature

  • Franz Josef Hausmann : Le dictionnaire analogique , in: Dictionaries. An international handbook of lexicography, ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, second volume, Berlin / New York 1990, pp. 1094-1099 (in French)
  • Elisa Isabel García Girón: Julio Casares Sánchez. Biografía social cultural y política de un hombre público, Diss. Granada 2007
  • Eckhardt Fuchs et al. (Ed.): Schulbuch als Mission , Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2018 ISBN 978-3-412507374 ( Casares resolution in English, p. 18f. )

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personal data
SURNAME Casares, Julio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casares Sánchez, Julio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish diplomat, Romance philologist, Hispanist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Granada
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1964
Place of death Madrid