Lorenzo Lucena
Lorenzo Lucena Pedrosa (born March 24, 1807 in Cordoba , † August 24, 1881 in Oxford ) was a Spanish theologian who worked as a Hispanist in England .
Life
Lorenzo Lucena attended the seminary school in Cordoba from 1821, became a theology teacher there in 1828 and headmaster in 1830. In 1836 he fled to Gibraltar, converted to the Anglican Church , married and became an Anglican priest. In 1849 he went to Liverpool with his family and became a Spanish teacher.
Lucena was the first teaching Hispanic at Oxford University from 1858 until his death in 1881 at the Taylor Institution (for European languages) . He built an appropriate library. In 1877 he was awarded the title Magister Artium honoris causa by the university for his services (since he lacked any official qualification).
Lucena made a name for himself by revising the famous but outdated Reina-Valera Bible translation by Casiodoro de Reina and Cipriano de Valera .
Works
- (Translator) Religión, disciplina, y sagrados ritos de la Iglesia de Inglaterra . Opúsculo de Cosino, Obispo de Durham (1594–1672). Con algunos breves razonamientos acerca de la fé Catolica, y Reformación Anglicana, translated from Latin, Liverpool 1856
- (Editor) La Santa Biblia que contiene los Sagrados Libros del Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento . Antigua version de Cipriano de Valera, cotejada con diversas traducciones, y revisada con arreglo á los originales Hebréo y Griego, Oxford 1862, 1865, 1869
literature
- Jaime Memory, “Lorenzo Lucena Pedrosa (1807-1881). Recuperando una figura señera de la Segunda Reforma española ", in: Anales de Historia Contemporánea 17, 2001, pp. 213-226.
Web links
- Literature by and about Lorenzo Lucena in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lucena, Lorenzo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lucena Pedrosa, Lorenzo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish theologian and Hispanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cordoba |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1881 |
| Place of death | Oxford |