Olegario Víctor Andrade

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Olegario Víctor Andrade (born March 6, 1839 in Alegrete , Brazil , † October 30, 1882 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine writer , journalist and politician .

Olegario Víctor Andrade

Life

During the political unrest ( May Revolution ), his family fled their homeland Gualeguaychú ( Entre Ríos ) to Alegrete in Brazil. His parents died in Gualeguaychú in 1845 when they tried to regain a foothold there. Sponsored and supported by a friend of the family, Justo José de Urquiza , Andrade was able to visit the Colegio del Uruguay in Concepción del Uruguay (Entre Ríos). This school was founded by Urquiza in 1849 and Andrade was one of the first students there.

Andrade married in 1857 at the age of 18. He made his living as a journalist; At times he also acted as editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tribuna". In 1860/61 Andrade acted as private secretary to President Santiago Derqui .

In 1878 he became a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Partido Autonomista.

At the age of 43, Olegario Victor Andrade died on October 30, 1882 in Buenos Aires and found his final resting place in the La Recoleta cemetery (Buenos Aires).

reception

The contemporary literary critic was Andrade as one of the most important poets of Argentina. The Spanish writer Juan Valera put Andrade above André Bello and José Joaquín de Olmedo . And the literary critic Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo recommended every reader andrades poems "... to read out loud and sounding and to give them applause with the thunder of cannons". Today (2010) his work - overloaded with thoughts of freedom and progress in baroque rhetoric - is judged more mildly.

Andrades most important poems are Prometeo , dedicated to his role model Victor Hugo and according to his own admission a "... song of the human spirit" and his romantic progressive epic La Atlántida (also inspired by Victor Hugo), in which he tries to trace the historical origin of humanity . Andrades fame came mainly from these two works.

Richard Ludloff published a detailed résumé in 1910.

Works

  • La arpa perdida ( text online )
  • Prometheus ("Prometeo"). Pierson. Leipzig 1910 (Argentine seals; 1).
  • Poema a Paysandú .
  • La Atlántida . 1881.
  • El nido de los cóndores .
  • Las dos políticas . 1886 (essays).

literature

  • Beatriz Bosch: El compromiso politico del poeto Olegario V. Andrade . In: Revista de la Junta de Estudios históricos de Mendoza , 1984, issue 10, pp. 247-263.
  • Richard Ludloff: The Argentine War of Independence. Seals of the struggle for independence by Vicente Lopez y Planes , Olegario Víctor Andrade, Juan Chassaing , Ricardo Gutiérrez and Florencio Varela . Pierson. Leipzig 1910 (Argentine seals; 2).
  • Jorge O. Sulé: Olegario Victor Andrade. Legislador, periodista y poeta . Círculo de Legisladores de la Nación Argentina, Buenos Aires 1999, ISBN 987-9336-31-3 .
  • Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors. Literary dictionary and bibliography of German translations . Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2 , pp. 28-29.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biografía de Olegario Andrade

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Andrade, Olegario Víctor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine writer, journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Algrete , Rio Grande do Sul
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1882
Place of death Buenos Aires