Luis de León
Luis de León ( also: Ponce de Leōn ; * 1527 Belmonte , today's province of Cuenca ; † 23 August 1591 in Madrigal de las Altas Torres , today's province of Ávila ) was one of the greatest lyrical poets in Spain .
Life
In 1544 León joined the Augustinian Order and then studied theology at the University of Salamanca , where he later taught. When his Marran origins became known, he came before the Inquisition Court in 1571 . He was charged with secret Judaizing . In addition, he was accused of having translated the Song of Songs into Spanish . After five years of imprisonment, he was released in 1576. Allegedly afterwards he took up his lectures in Salamanca with the words: Hesterno die dicebamus ( “As we said yesterday ...” ). He was later appointed Vicar General of his order in the province of Castile . León wrote several moral and religious prose works; "De los nombres de Cristo" dealt with the designation of Christ in the Bible, and "La perfecta casada" (1583) dealt with the moral norms of marriage. He was the first editor of the works of Teresa of Ávila. In his poetry , however, León revealed his penchant for the non-Christian authors of antiquity. León translated Horace , Virgil and Homer as well as the Italians Pietro Bembo and Francesco Petrarca . León established his fame with about twenty poems in which he sang about the mysteries of the universe - they only appeared posthumously in 1631.
Along with Francisco de Aldana (* 1537 or 1540; † 1578), Alonso de Ercilla , Fernando de Herrera and John of the Cross, he was one of the most important literary interpreters of the Spanish Renaissance .
literature
- Karl Vossler : Luis de León . Munich: Bayer. Akad. D. Sciences; CH Beck, 1943 (meeting reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Philosophical-historical department; year 1943, no.1)
- Karl Vossler: Luis de León . Munich: Schnell & Steiner, 1946
- Adolar Zumkeller: Luis de León. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 1480-1482.
Web links
- Literature by and about Luis de León in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Luis de León in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
swell
- ↑ Ponce de Leōn . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 16, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p. 144 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | León, Luis de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | León, Luis Ponce de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish poet, humanist and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1527 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belmonte (Cuenca) , today's province of Cuenca |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 23, 1591 |
| Place of death | Madrigal de las Altas Torres , today's province of Ávila |