Lloyd August Kasten

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Lloyd August Kasten

Lloyd August Kasten (born April 14, 1905 in Watertown , Wisconsin , † December 13, 1999 ) was an American Romanist , Hispanic , Lusitanist and Medievalist of German descent.

life and work

Lloyd August Wilhelm Kasten (whose mother tongue was German) first studied economics and then Spanish (graduated in 1927) at the University of Wisconsin in Madison . Then he went to the University of Florida in Tallahassee and to Madrid to the Centro de Estudios Históricos. He received his doctorate in Madison in 1931 under Antonio García Solalinde with the work (Ed.) Secreto de los secretos, translated by Juan Fernández de Heredia. An edition of the unique Aragonese manuscript with literary introduction and glossary .

After Solalinde's untimely death, he took over the Seminary of Medieval Spanish Studies (later Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies) founded by his teacher as an assistant professor and ran it successfully for a lifetime. He became Associate Professor in 1942, Full Professor in 1947 and later Antonio G. Solalinde Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. In 1975 he retired, but remained active at the seminary.

Kasten was a co-founder of the '' Luso-Brazilian Review '' . In 1956 he received a Guggenheim scholarship . In 1974 he became a member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE).

Other works

lexicography

  • (with Hayward Keniston , Ralph Steele Boggs, and HB Richardson) Tentative Dictionary of Old Spanish , Chapel Hill 1946
  • (with Jean Anderson) Concordance to the "Celestina" 1499 , 1976
  • (with Florian J. Cody) Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish , New York 2001
  • (with John J. Nitti) Diccionario de la prosa castellana del Rey Alfonso X , New York 2002

Editorial activity

  • (with Eduardo Neale-Silva) Lecturas escogidas , New York 1934, 1945
  • (with Eduardo Neale-Silva) Lecturas modernas , New York 1937
  • (with Eduardo Neale-Silva) Lecturas amenas , New York 1941
  • (with Claude E. Leroy ) Érico Veríssimo, Gato prêto em campo de neve , New York 1947
  • Seudo-Aristóteles, Poridat de las poridades , Madrid 1957
  • (with Antonio García Solalinde and Victor Oelschläger ) Alfonso X, General estoria. Segunda parte , 2 vols., Madrid 1957–1961
  • (with Lawrence Bayard Kiddle ) Alfonso X, Libro de las cruzes , Madrid 1961
  • (with Wilhelmina Jonxis-Henkemans) Text and concordance of the General estoria II. BNM MS. 10237 , Madison 1993
  • (with John Nitti and Wilhelmina Jonxis-Henkemans) Electronic texts and concordances of the prose works of Alfonso X El Sabio , Madison 1997
  • (with John Nitti) The electronic texts and concordances of medieval Navarro-Aragonese manuscripts , Madison 1997
  • Juan Fernández de Heredia, The Aragonese version of the Secreto Secretorum , Madison 1999

literature

  • Studies in Honor of Lloyd A. Kasten , ed. by Theodore S. Beardsley et al., Madison 1975 (with biography and list of publications)
  • Two generations. A Tribute to Lloyd A. Kasten (1905-1999), ed. by Francisco Gago Jover, New York 2002
  • Ian Macpherson, [Obituary], in: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 77, 2000, pp. 97-99

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personal data
SURNAME Kasten, Lloyd August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kasten, Lloyd A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romanist, Hispanic, Lusitanist and Medievalist of German descent
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Watertown, Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1999