Raimundo Lida
Raimundo Lida (born November 15, 1908 in Lviv , † June 20, 1979 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an Argentine and American Romanist and Hispanic of Jewish- Galician descent.
life and work
Lida came to Argentina as a toddler, where he obtained citizenship in 1930. He studied with Amado Alonso in Buenos Aires . From 1936 to 1946 he represented the chair of aesthetics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata without pay . From 1937 to 1943 he was the library librarian of the Central Bank. In 1939 he accepted a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. From 1943 he was editor of the Revista de la Universidad de Buenos Aires . He received his doctorate in 1943 from the University of Buenos Aires with the thesis Belleza, arte y poesía en la estética de Santayana (Tucumán 1943).
In 1947 he left Argentina and, at the invitation of Alfonso Reyes, went to Mexico to the Research Institute for Literature and Linguistics El Colegio de México . He taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico . In 1953 he was appointed to succeed Amado Alonso at Harvard University and acquired US citizenship in 1958. From 1968 he occupied the Smith Chair at Harvard. In 1970 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Raimundo Lida was the brother of María Rosa Lida de Malkiel . He was married to Denah Lida for the second time .
Other works
- (Ed. And translator with Amado Alonso ) Introducción a la estilística romance, by Karl Vossler , Leo Spitzer y Helmut Hatzfeld , Buenos Aires 1932
- (with Charles Bally , Elise Richter and Amado Alonso ) El Impresionismo en el lenguaje, Buenos Aires 1936, 3rd edition 1956
- (Ed. With Amado Alonso) El Español en Chile, trabajos de Rodolfo Lenz , Andrés Bello y Rodolfo Oroz , Buenos Aires 1940
- Letras hispánicas. Estudios. Esquemas, Mexico 1958, 1981
- Prosas de Quevedo, Barcelona 1980
- Rubén Darío. Modernismo, Caracas 1984
- Estudios Hispánicos, Mexico 1988
literature
- Homenaje a María Rosa Lida de Malkiel y Raimundo Lida, Buenos Aires 1982 (in: Sur 350–351)
- Homenaje a Raimundo Lida, Buenos Aires 1985
- Alfonso Reyes, Raimundo Lida y María Rosa Lida de Malkiel. Correspondencia, ed. by Serge I. Zaïtzeff, Mexico 2009
- Clara E. Lida, Fernando Lida-García: Raimundo Lida, filólogo y humanista peregrino . In: Prismas . tape 13 , no. 1 , 2009, ISSN 1852-0499 (Spanish, org.ar ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lida, Raimundo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian and American Romanist and Hispanic of Galician descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1979 |
| Place of death | Cambridge , Massachusetts |