Manuel José Quintana
Manuel José Quintana y Lorenzo (born April 11, 1772 in Madrid ; † March 11, 1857 ibid) was a Spanish poet and playwright.
Life
Quintana studied law in Córdoba and Salamanca and then settled as a lawyer in Madrid, where he gradually became fiscal agent of the commercial junta , theater censor , general secretary of the central junta and secretary in the translation office in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
After the French invasion he was one of the most active members of the patriotic party and together with others founded the Semanario patriótico , which had the particular purpose of encouraging resistance to foreign rule.
He also edited the Variedades de ciencias, literatura y arte , one of the best Spanish magazines of its kind. He also wrote most of the proclamations and manifestos of the insurrectional junta.
Nevertheless, after Ferdinand VII's return he was persecuted as a propagator of liberal ideas and held in custody until the revolution of 1820 brought him freedom.
Reinstated in his earlier positions, he was given the post of President of the General Study Commission in 1821, but lost all those offices again during the Restoration of 1823 and, being expelled from Madrid, withdrew to Extremadura until he received an ode in 1828 the marriage of Ferdinand VII bought permission to return to the capital.
In 1833 he was again secretary in the translation office, later a member of the First Chamber, general director of public education and tutor to Queen Isabella II , who crowned him poet on March 25, 1855 in a public meeting of the Cortes .
plant
Of Quintana's poems, which appeared in 1795 and 1802, his odes were particularly recognized , and among these the Oda á la mar is especially famous.
But all of them have become immensely popular through their patriotism . Quintana's dramas are of lesser importance. Quintana has also made a name for himself as a historian with his Vidas de Españoles célebres .
At last he has made a name for himself in the history of Spanish poetry with his tasteful anthologies from the Spanish poets: Poesías selectas castellanas desde el tiempo de Juan de Mena and Musa épica castellana . His works appeared in the 19th volume of Luca de Tena y Bethencourt's Biblioteca de autores españoles desde la formación del lenguaje hasta nuestros días (índices generales, tomos 72 a 225; Madrid: Rivadeneyra. Madrid: Ediciones Atlas, 1970), then as Obras poéticas .
Works Spanish
- Vidas de españoles célebres : El Cid; Guzman el Bueno; Roger de Lauria. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1959.
- Poesías completas . Ed., Introducción y notas de Albert Dérozier. Madrid: Ed. Castalia, 1980. ISBN 84-7039-094-5 .
- Selección poética . Manuel J. Quintana. Ed. prep. by Rogelio Reyes Cano. Madrid: Ed. Nacional, 1978. Biblioteca de la literatura y el pensamiento hispánicos; 33. H.
Works German
- Friedrich Engels : On the invention of letterpress printing (= A la invención de la imprenta ). In: 1840. Gutenberg's album. Edited by Heinrich Meyer . Johann Heinrich Meyer, Braunschweig 1840, pp. 209, 211, 213, 215, 217, 219, 221, 223, 225. MDZ Reader
- Biographies of famous Spaniards . Translated by Wolf Grafen v. Baudissin. Berlin: Reimer, 1857.
literature
- Quintana, Manuel José . In: Wigand's Conversations Lexicon . Volume 11. Wigand, Leipzig 1850, pp. 321–322. Digitized
- Vila Selma, José: Ideario de Manuel José Quintana. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigac. Cientificas, 1961. Revista de literatura, Anejos; 19th
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Dérozier, Albert : Manuel Josef Quintana et la naissance du libéralisme en Espagne. Paris: Les belles Lettres, 1968–70. Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon, 95, 105.
- Dérozier, Albert: Manuel José Quintana y el nacimiento del liberalismo en España / Albert Dérozier. Trad .: Manuel Moya. Madrid: Turner, 1978.
- Martínez Torrón, Diego: Manuel José Quintana y el espíritu de la España liberal (con textos desconocidos). Seville: Ed. Alfar, 1995. ISBN 84-7898-106-3 .
- Comín, Tomás de: Ligera ojeada o breve idea del imperio de Marruecos in 1822; (Cartas a D. Manuel José Quintana). Nueva ed., Precedida de una noticia editorial. Madrid: Ed. Hiperión, 1995 (Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-156)). ISBN 84-7517-460-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Manuel José Quintana in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department I. Volume 3. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985, pp. 24-31.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quintana, Manuel José |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Quintana y Lorenzo, Manuel José |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1772 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1857 |
| Place of death | Madrid |