María Rosa Lida de Malkiel

María Rosa Lida de Malkiel

María Rosa Lida de Malkiel (born November 7, 1910 in Buenos Aires , † September 25, 1962 in Oakland , California ) was an Argentine classical scholar and Hispanic of Jewish origin.

Life

María Rosa Lida was the child of Polish emigrants; her mother tongues were Spanish and Yiddish . Her brother Raimundo Lida (1908–1979) was also a philologist. From 1928 to 1932 she studied philology in Buenos Aires. Since 1938 she has held various teaching positions at high schools and universities. From 1941 to 1947 she was a member of the newly founded research institute Instituto Nacional del Profesorado Secundario, where she worked with Amado Alonso , whose favorite student she was. Since the mid-1940s, she increasingly turned from Graecistics to Hispanic studies and dealt with medieval Spanish literature and the influence of classical literatures on it. She completed her dissertation on Juan de Mena , a Spanish poet of the 15th century, in 1947 with the grade summa cum laude . She held professorships at various American universities, including Berkeley , Harvard and Stanford . In 1948 she married the Ukrainian linguist Yakov Malkiel . She died in 1962.

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Lida de Malkiel became known for her fundamental studies of the most important works of early Spanish literature, La Celestina and El libro de buen amor . In addition, she researched the afterlife of ancient motifs and figures in the Iberian literatures, with a particular interest in the history of the impact of Jewish authors ( Flavius ​​Josephus , Philo of Alexandria ). In addition to Ernst Robert Curtius , whose work European literature and the Latin Middle Ages she devoted an extensive critical review, she laid the foundations for researching the connection between ancient and medieval literatures at the beginning of the 1940s. Many of her publications were only published posthumously.

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Works

• Herodoto. Los nueve libros de la historia . Traducción y estudio preliminar por María Rosa Lida de Malkiel. WM Jackson, Buenos Aires 1949.
• Juan de Mena, poeta del prerrenacimiento español . Colegio de México, México 1950. (= Publicaciones de la nueva revista de filología hispánica; 1)
• La idea de la fama en la Edad Media castellana . FCE, México 1952.
• Two Spanish Masterpieces: the Book of Good Love and The Celestina . University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1961.
• La originalidad artística de «La Celestina» . Eudeba, Buenos Aires 1962.
• Estudios de literatura española y comparada . Eudeba, Buenos Aires 1966.
• Jerusalen. The subject of the literary story of the future and the destruction of the romanos . UBA, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Buenos Aires 1972.
• Juan Ruiz. Selección del Libro de buen amor y estudios críticos . UBA, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Buenos Aires, 1973 (= Biblioteca cultural los fundamentales).
• Dido en la literatura española. Su retrato y defensa . Tamesis Books Limited / Ediciones Castilla, London / Madrid 1974.
• La tradición clásica en España . Ariel, Barcelona 1975 (collection of essays, including the Curtius review).
• El cuento popular y otros ensayos . Losada, Buenos Aires 1976.
• Estudios sobre la literatura del Siglo XV . José Porrúa Turanzas, Madrid 1977.
• Herod. Su persona, reinado y dinastía . Castalia, Madrid 1977 (= Literatura y sociedad, 16).

Obituaries

• Ana María Barrenechea: María Rosa Lida de Malkiel . In: Davar . Volume 107, Buenos Aires 1965, pp. 105-110.
• Rodolfo Antonio Borello: María Rosa Lida de Malkiel . In: Cuadernos hispanoamericanos . Volume 52, 1962, No. 156, pp. 433-440.
• Roberto Fernando Giusti: María Rosa Lida de Malkiel . In: Boletín de la Academia Argentina de Letras . Volume 27, 1962, No. 105-106, pp. 347-350.
• Edith F. Helman : María Rosa Lida de Malkiel (1910–1962) . In: Hispanic Review . Volume 31, 1963, pp. 66-69.
• Gonzalo Sobejano: María Rosa Lida de Malkiel 1910–1962 . In: Romanesque research . Volume 75, 1963, pp. 103-106.

Memorial writings

• Yakov Malkiel (ed.): María Rosa Lida de Malkiel Memorial . In: Romance Philology . Volume 17, 1963, items 1-2.
• Chica Salas, Francisca (ed.): Homenaje a María Rosa Lida de Malkiel . 2 vols. Univ. de Buenos Aires, Fac. de Filosofía y Letras, Inst. de Filología y Literaturas Hispánicas "Dr. Amado Alonso". Buenos Aires 1962.

Studies

• Charles F. Fraker Jr .: María Rosa Lida de Malkiel on the "Celestina" . In: Hispania . Volume 50, 1967, pp. 174-181.
• Ana M. Gómez-Bravo: María Rosa Lida de Malkiel (1910–1962) and Medieval Spanish Literary historiography . In: Jane Chance (ed.): Women Medievalists and the Academy . University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, pp. 723-732.
• Arancio Labandeira Fernández: Menéndez Pelayo y María Rosa Lida de Malkiel ante Celestina y la lena romana . In: Cuadernos para investigación de la literatura hispánica . Volume 9, Madrid 1988, pp. 7-10.
• Yakov Malkiel: Cómo trabajaba María Rosa Lida de Malkiel . In: Homenaje a Rodríguez-Moñino . Volume 1, Madrid 1966, pp. 371-379.
• Yakov Malkiel: Las fuentes de los estudios josefinos de María Rosa Lida de Malkiel . In: Cuadernos del sur . Volume 11, Bahía Blanca 1971, pp. 9-18.
• Yakov Malkiel: Sobre la cronología interna de algunos trabajos de María Rosa Lida de Malkiel . In: Homenaje al Instituto de Filología y Literaturas Hispánicas Dr. Amado Alonso . Buenos Aires 1975, pp. 243-252.
• Arnold G. Reichenberger: Herodotus in Spain. Comments on a neglected essay (1949) by María Rosa Lida de Malkiel . In: Romance Philology . Volume 19, 1965, pp. 235-249.

Documents

• Barbara De Marco: "Romance ha de ser ..." The correspondence of Yakov Malkiel and María Rosa Lida, 1943-1948 . In: Romance Philology . Volume 59, 2005, pp. 1-101.