Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (born November 3, 1856 in Santander , † May 19, 1912 ibid) was a Spanish literary scholar and historian . His main area of interest was the history of ideas , but he also dealt with poetry, translation and philosophy. With his work he promoted the systematization of the Spanish humanities. His work on the heretics movement is outstanding . Menéndez y Pelayo was a conservative intellectual who, referring to the Siglo de Oro , portrayed the Enlightenment as alien to the Spanish people, and who formulated the expatriation of its followers in the Second Spanish Republic, as it were .
Life
His extraordinary talent was evident at a young age, so that he began studying at the University of Barcelona at the age of 15 . With special permission from the Cortes , he was appointed Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Madrid at the age of 21 . From 1878 to 1898 he was Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Madrid . Three years after being appointed professor, Menéndez y Pelayo was accepted into the Real Academia Española . From 1898 to 1912 he was director of the Spanish National Library . In 1909 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy . He was buried in Santander Cathedral.
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Through his work he established himself as one of the most prominent representatives of ultramontanism in Spain. He was best known for his collection of essays Ciencia española , published in 1878 , in which he defended national traditions against attacks by political and church reformers with polemical means. His reputation as a literary critic began with his lectures on the Spanish poet Calderón in 1881. At a ceremony to commemorate him, he praised the Inquisition . As a literary historian, he appeared primarily through the Historia de las ideas estéticas en España , which were published between 1881 and 1891.
bibliography
- La novela entre los Latinos (doctoral thesis). Santander 1875.
- La ciencia española , (second edition, Madrid 1877–1880)
- Historia de los heterodoxos españoles (1880–1882, 3 volumes)
- La estética des idealismo alemán . Rialp, Madrid 1954
- Calderón . Bühl-Verlag, Herrliberg-Zurich 1947
- Miguel de Cervantes . Bühl-Verlag, Herrliberg-Zurich 1947
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Böcker: Tradition and Modernity in Spanish Fascism of the Second Republic (1931-1936) . In: Fundus . No. 3 , 1998 ( online at the Society for Scientific Data Processing mbH Göttingen ).
- ↑ a b Klaus von Beyme : Political Theories in the Age of Ideologies . Westdeutscher Verlag , 2002, ISBN 3-531-13875-8 , Conservatism and extreme right, p. 565-567 ( excerpt online at Google Books ).
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 7, 2020 .
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- Biography (in Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menéndez y Pelayo, Marcelino |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santander |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1912 |
| Place of death | Santander |