Pedro Henríquez Ureña

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Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1946)

Pedro Henríquez Ureña (born June 29, 1884 in Santo Domingo , † May 11, 1946 in Buenos Aires ) was an important Dominican writer , philosopher , philologist and literary critic .

Life

Pedro Henríquez Ureña was born into a family of intellectuals. His mother was Salomé Ureña , an eminent Dominican poet and feminist, and his grandfather Nícolás Ureña de Mendoza was a politician.

After completing his schooling, he emigrated to Mexico in 1906. There he studied philosophy and later worked as a lecturer in philology at the university. In the years immediately before the Mexican Revolution , he belonged to a liberal intellectual circle that included Alfonso Reyes , Julio Torri, Antonio Caso and José Vasconcelos . Thanks in part to these encounters, he began his research into the Hispanic language and Hispanic-American identity in Mexico, with which he is still associated today. In particular, his two essays La Utopía de américa and Patria de la justicia were much discussed .

In 1915 he emigrated from Mexico to the USA, where he spent the next decade and a half, with a few interruptions from long trips. First he worked as a journalist, from 1921 he took over a professorship at the University of Minnesota . In 1930 he moved to Argentina to do research and teach at the Philological Institute of the University of Buenos Aires .

Pedro Henríquez Ureña died on May 11, 1946 in Buenos Aires.

Honors

The Dominican Poetry Prize Premio Nacional de Poesía Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña were named in his honor.

Fonts

As a writer

  • Ensayos críticos (1905, La Habana)
  • Horas de estudio (1910, Paris)
  • Nacimiento de Dionisios (1916)
  • En la orilla: mi España (1922)
  • La utopía de America (1925)
  • Apuntaciones sobre la novela en America (1927)
  • Seis ensayos en busca de nuestra expresión (PDF; 649 kB) (1928)
  • La cultura y las letras coloniales en Santo Domingo (1936)
  • Sobre el problema del andalucismo dialectal de América (1937)
  • El español en Santo Domingo (1940)
  • Plenitud de España (1940)
  • Corrientes Literarias en la América Hispana (1941)
  • Historia de la cultura en la America Hispana (1947)
  • Ensayos . Critical Edition, edited by José Luis Abellán and Ana María Barrenechea . Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City 1998, ISBN 84-89666-34-2 .

As editor

  • Cien de las mejores poesías castellanas. Selección . Kapelusz, Buenos Aires 1929.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Emilio Carilla: Pedro Henríquez Ureña . Tres estudios. Publicaciones de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Buenos Aires 1956.
  • Enrique Anderson Imbert : La filosofía de Pedro Henríquez Ureña . In: Sur , Buenos Aires, No. 335 (1985), pp. 5-20.
  • Laura Febres: Pedro Henríquez Ureña. Crítico de America . La Casa de Bello, Caracas 1989.
  • Enrique Zuleta Álvarez: Pedro Henríquez Ureña y su tiempo . Catálogos, Buenos Aires 1997.
  • Sabine Porschen: The image of America in the essays by Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1884–1946). Westphalian Wilhelms University, Latin America Center, Münster 2002.
  • Catalina Valdés Echenique: La historiografía literaria de Pedro Henríquez Ureña y sus aportes al conocimiento de la historia cultural de la Colonia . Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile 2008.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Gabriella de Beer: Pedro Henríquez Ureña en la vida intelectual mexicana. In: Cuadernos Americanos (CA), Mexico City, Vol. 36 (1977), No. 215, pp. 124-131.
  2. ^ Nicolás Cócaro: Don Pedro Henríquez Ureña: Alentar la utopía en America. In: Humboldt . No. 60 (1976), pp. 86-87.
personal data
SURNAME Henríquez Ureña, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dominican writer, philologist and intellectual
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Santo Domingo
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1946
Place of death Buenos Aires