Miguel Romera-Navarro

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Miguel Romera-Navarro (born September 29, 1885 in Almería , † May 3, 1954 in Austin (Texas) ) was an American Romanist , Hispanic and literary scholar of Spanish origin.

life and work

Romera-Navarro studied law and philology in Granada and Madrid. In 1912 he went to New York City and worked for the women's magazine The Delineator . Hugo Albert Rennert arranged for his appointment as an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1926 . In 1927 he received his doctorate at this university with the thesis Miguel de Unamuno, novelista, poeta, ensayista (Madrid 1928), acquired US citizenship and was professor there from 1927 to 1947. From 1933 he had various functions in the publication of the Hispanic Review magazine .

In 1947 he was appointed to the University of Texas at Austin (as Distinguished Professor of Romance Languages) and founded there (with Elmer Richard Sims ) the “University of Texas Hispanic Studies” series.

Romera-Navarro was a corresponding member of numerous academies.

Other works

  • Ensayo de una filosofia feminista (Refutación A Moebius), Madrid 1909
  • Feminismo jurídico. Derechos civiles de la mujer, delincuencia femenina, sus derechos políticos, Madrid 1910
  • El Hispanismo en North America. Exposición y crítica de su aspecto literario, Madrid 1917
  • America española, New York 1919
  • Historia de la literatura española, Boston / New York / Chicago 1928, Boston 1949
  • Historia de España, Boston 1932
  • (Ed.) Antología de la literatura española, desde los orígenes hasta principios del siglo XIX, Boston / Chicago / London 1933
  • La preceptiva dramática de Lope de Vega y otros ensayos sobre el Fénix, Madrid 1935
  • (Ed.) Baltasar Gracián, El Criticón, 3 vols., Philadelphia / London 1938-1940, Hildesheim / New York 1978
  • Estudio del autógrafo de "El Héroe" graciano. Ortografía, correcciones y estilo, Madrid 1946
  • Interpretación pictórica del "Quijote" por Doré, Madrid 1946
  • Estudios sobre Gracián, Austin 1950
  • Registro de lexicografía hispánica, Madrid 1951
  • Autógrafos cervantinos. Estudio, Austin 1954
  • (Ed.) Baltasar Gracián, Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia Madrid, 1954
  • (Ed. With Jorge Martin Furt ) Baltasar Gracián, El Discreto, Buenos Aires 1960

literature

  • Bibliography of Romera-Navarro. A homage offered to Professor Miguel Romera-Navarro by his friends and former students on the thirtieth year of his teaching, Philadelphia 1947
  • [Obituary] in: Hispanic Review 22, 1954, pp. 306-308

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personal data
SURNAME Romera-Navarro, Miguel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance studies, Hispanic and literary scholar of Spanish origin
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Almeria
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1954
Place of death Austin (Texas)