Robert Pring-Mill

Robert Pring-Mill (born September 11, 1924 in Stapleford Tawney , Epping Forest (District) , † October 7, 2005 in Oxford ) was a British Romanist , Hispanist and Catalanist of Scottish descent.

life and work

Robert Duguid Forrest Pring-Mill lived with his family in Mallorca from the age of seven . From 1941 he did military service in Burma . He studied from 1948 and from 1952 taught at Oxford, from 1965 until his retirement in 1988 as a fellow at St Catherine's College and professor of Spanish and Latin American literature.

Latin America has been of particular interest to Pring-Mill since his first trip in 1949. He was friends with Pablo Neruda and Ernesto Cardenal . He helped Neruda to an honorary doctorate in Oxford in 1965 (which paved the way for the 1971 Nobel Prize).

Pring-Mill had been a member of the British Academy since 1988 . He was an officer in the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins (1992).

Works

• Outline of a background to the Chinese triad societies , Kuala Kangsar 1946
• (Ed. With Cyril Albert Jones) Advanced Spanish Unseens , London 1958
• (Ed.) Lope de Vega, Five plays , New York 1961
• El microcosmos lul • lià , Oxford 1961
  • German: The microcosm of Ramon Llull. An introduction to the medieval worldview , Stuttgart 2001
  • Italian: Il microcosmo lulliano , Rome 2007
  • French: Le microcosme lullien. Introduction à la pensée de Raymond Lulle , Friborg / Paris 2008
• A Estudis sobre Ramon Llull. El número primitivo de las dignidades en el Arte general , Oxford 1963
• (Translator) Ernesto Cardenal, Marilyn Monroe, and other poems , London 1975
• (Translator) Pablo Neruda. A basic anthology , Oxford 1975
• Gracias a la vida. The power and poetry of songs , London 1990
• Estudis sobre Ramon Llull, 1956-1978 , ed. by Lola Badia i Albert Soler, Barcelona 1991
• Calderón. Estructura y ejemplaridad , ed. by Nigel Griffin, Woodbridge 2001

literature

• The discerning eye. Studies presented to Robert Pring-Mill on his seventieth birthday , ed. by Nigel Griffin et al., Llangrannog 1994
• I sing the difference. Identity and commitment in Latin American song. A symposium in honor of Robert Pring-Mill , ed. by Jan Fairley and David Horn, Liverpool 2002
• The Guardian 17 October 2005 (obituary)
• J. Higgins, Robert Duguid Forrest Pring-Mill 1924-2005, in: Proceedings of the British Academy 150, 2008, pp. 183-200
• Lola Badia, obituary , in: Llengua & Literatura 17, 2006, pp. 553–555 (Catalan)

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Pring-Mill in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/misc/newsid_4317000/4317042.stm (obituary, Spanish, with picture)