Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena

Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena (born June 28, 1778 in Mexico City , † February 19, 1860 ) was an American Romance scholar and Hispanist of Mexican origin.

life and work

Velázquez graduated from school and university in Madrid. He was in the service of the Spanish royal family, but after the imprisonment of Charles IV. In 1808 he renounced his stay in Spain, and in view of the Mexican turmoil did not return to his home country, but to New York, where he built his life as a foreign language teacher, Lexicographer and Spanish Teacher at Columbia University .

Works (selection)

• Elementos de la lengua inglesa para uso de los españoles , New York 1810
• Elementos de la lengua castellana , New York 1820, 1824, 1827
• The elements of the Spanish language simplified , New York 1831, 1935
• Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff 's new method of learning to read, write, and speak , New York 1848
• A new Spanish reader , New York 1850
• Friedrich Funck, instructions for learning the Spanish language, based on the textbook written by Velasquez de la Cadena for the English , Frankfurt a. M. 1851
• A pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages , 2 Bde., New York 1852. Edited by Edward Gray [1849–1920], A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages , New York 1900; New revised Velázquez Spanish and English dictionary , Chicago 1959, London 1967
• Seoane's Neuman and Baretti by Velasquez. A pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages ​​with the addition of more than 8000 words, idioms , New York 1853
• El gran diccionario inglés sin barreras Velázquez español-inglés , Los Angeles 1994
• New revised Velázquez Spanish and English dictionary , by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, and Edward Gray, and Juan L. Iribas; newly revised by Ida Navarro Hinojosa, Manuel Blanco-González, and RJ Nelson, Clinton, N J. 1999
• Velázquez world wide Spanish-English dictionary. Spanish-English. Inglés-Español , El Monte, Ca. 2004

literature

• Roger Jacob Steiner, 308. Bilingual Lexicography: English-Spanish and Spanish-English, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Third volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann , Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta , Berlin. New York 1991, pp. 2949-2956

Web links

• Literature by and about Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)