Luis Monguió
Luis Monguió Primatesta (born June 25, 1908 in Tarragona , † July 10, 2005 in Clifton Park , New York ) was an American Romanist and Hispanic scholar of Spanish origin.
life and work
Monguió studied law and philology in Barcelona . From 1930 to 1938 he was in the diplomatic service in Chile and Morocco . In the Spanish Civil War he fought as a volunteer on the side of the Republicans . In 1939 he went to the United States with his American wife and studied at Berkeley with Arturo Torres Rioseco (graduated in 1941). From 1942 he served as a volunteer in the US Army and acquired US citizenship in 1944. From 1946 to 1957 he taught Romance languages at Mills College . From 1957 to 1975 he was professor of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley (from 1965 to 1968 as chairman [managing director]), but taught until 1994.
Monguió was an honorary doctor of Mills College and the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima (1971).
Other works
- (Ed. With Arturo Torres Ríoseco) Lector hispanoamericano , Boston 1944
- César Vallejo (1892-1938). Vida y obra. Bibliografía. Antología , Lima 1952
- La poesía postmodernista peruana , Mexico 1954
- Estudios sobre literatura hispanoamericana y española , Mexico 1958
- Sobre un escritor elogiado por Cervantes. Los versos del perulero Enrique Garcés y sus amigos 1591 , Berkeley 1960
- Don José Joaquín de Mora y el Perú del ochocientos , Berkeley 1967
- Notas y estudios de literatura peruana y Americana , Mexico 1972
- (Eds.) Poesías de don Felipe Pardo y Aliaga , Berkeley 1973
literature
- Homenaje a don Luis Monguió , ed. by Jordi Aladro-Font, Newark, Delaware 1997
- Richard Cacchione Amendola: Luis Monguió (1908-2005). Bio-bibliografía de un distinguido peruanista e hispanoamericanista, in: APL (Academia Peruana de la Lengua), Bolletín 42, 2006, pp. 237–295 ( http://academiaperuanadelalengua.org/boletin/42/caccione-monguio )
Web links
- Literature by and about Luis Monguió in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/luismonguio.htm (with picture)
- http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/7348
- http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/rohoia/ucb/text/memdeunhombre00mongrich.pdf (autobiography in Spanish)
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/01/BAGAVE104D1.DTL
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monguió, Luis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monguió Primatesta, Luis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance philologist and Hispanist of Spanish descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tarragona |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 2005 |
| Place of death | Clifton Park , New York |