Rafael Lapesa

Rafael Lapesa Melgar (born February 8, 1908 in Valencia , † February 1, 2001 in Madrid ) was a Spanish Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

Rafael Lapesa Melgar studied in Madrid with Ramón Menéndez Pidal , Tomás Navarro Tomás and Américo Castro . He received his doctorate in 1931 with the work El dialecto asturiano occidental en la Edad Media (Sevilla 1998). Lapesa then taught in Madrid (1932–1941), Oviedo (1942) and Salamanca (1942–1947) and from 1947 to 1978 at the Chair of Spanish Language History at the Complutense University in Madrid . Between 1948 and 1968, visiting professorships were added at various US and Latin American universities. He achieved particular merits through his commitment to the academy project of the Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (A-APASANCA / B-BAJOCA, Madrid 1960–1996). The foundation for the follow-up project bears his name: "Fundación Instituto de Investigación Rafael Lapesa para el Nuevo diccionario histórico de la lengua española" (2005).

From 1954 Lapesa was a member of the Real Academia Española , whose secretary he was from 1964 to 1971. From 1974 to 1977 he was president of the International Hispanic Society ( Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas , AIH) founded in 1962 . Lapesa was multiple honorary doctor, u. a. in Helsinki and Toulouse. He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

He was married to Pilar Lago.

Works

Historia de la lengua española , Madrid 1942, most recently 2011
Introducción a los estudios literarios, Barcelona 1947, most recently in 2008
La trayectoria poética de Garcilaso, Madrid 1948, most recently 1985
La obra literaria del Marqués de Santillana, Madrid 1957
De la Edad Media a nuestros días. Estudios de historia literaría, Madrid 1967, most recently 1982
Poetas y prosistas de ayer y de hoy. Veinte estudios de historia y crítica literarias, Madrid 1977
Estudios de historia lingüística española, Madrid 1985
Garcilaso. Estudios completos, Madrid 1985, 1989
De Ayala a Ayala. Estudios literarios y estilísticos, Madrid 1988
Léxico e historia. 1. Palabras. 2. Diccionarios, ed. by Juan R. Lodares, 2 vols., Madrid 1992
El español moderno y contemporáneo. Estudios lingüísticos, Barcelona 1996
De Berceo and Jorge Guillén. Estudios literarios, Madrid 1997
Generaciones y semblanzas de claros varones y gentiles damas que ilustraron la filología hispánica de nuestro siglo, Madrid 1998 (short biographies of Spanish Romanists)
Estudios de morfosintaxis histórica del español, ed. by Rafael Cano and María Teresa Echenique, 2 vols., Madrid 2000

literature

Homenaje al profesor Lapesa, ed. by José Muñoz Garrigós, Murcia 1990
Homenaje a Rafael Lapesa, ed. by Silvia Iglesias Recuero, Madrid 2001
La obra de Lapesa desde la filología actual, ed. by José Jésus de Bustos and Rafael Cano, Madrid 2009

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personal data
SURNAME	Lapesa, Rafael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lapesa Melgar, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish Romanist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Valencia
DATE OF DEATH	February 1, 2001
Place of death	Madrid