Robert Ricard
Robert Ricard (* 1900 in Paris ; † August 5, 1984 ibid) was a French historian, Romanist and Hispanist .
life and work
Ricard spent the years 1918 to 1925 in Spain and Portugal. He studied at the École normal supérieure (Paris) , was a lecturer in Lisbon, passed the Agrégation de lettres and in 1925 became a high school teacher in Rabat . He taught at the Institut des hautes études marocaines and was temporarily in Mexico. He completed his habilitation in 1933 at the Sorbonne with the two theses La "conquête spirituelle" du Mexique. Essai sur l'apostolat et les méthodes missionaires des Ordres Mendiants en Nouvelle-Espagne de 1523-24 à 1572 (Paris 1933, Spanish: La conquista espiritual de México , Mexico 1947, 1986, 1994; English: The spiritual conquest of Mexico , Berkeley 1966) and Un document portugais sur la place de Mazagan au début du XVIIe siècle (Paris 1932). From 1937 to 1941 he was a professor at the University of Algiers , from 1941 to 1943 head of teaching in Morocco.
From 1946 to 1969 Ricard was professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the Sorbonne (as successor to Marcel Bataillon ). He was a member of the editorial committee of Bulletin Hispanique magazine from 1947 and was its editor from 1977 to 1981. He was a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua .
Ricard was an honorary doctorate from the University of Granada .
Other works
- Etudes sur l'histoire des Portugais au Maroc , Coimbra 1955 (collected articles)
- (Ed. With Maxime Chevalier and Noël Salomon) Mélanges offerts à Marcel Bataillon par les hispanistes français , Paris 1962
- Estudios de literatura religiosa española , Madrid 1964 (collected essays, translated by Manuel Muñoz Cortés )
- (with Nicole Pélisson) Etudes sur sainte Thérèse , Paris 1968
- Galdós et ses romans , Paris 1969
- Etudes sur l'histoire morale et religieuse du Portugal , Paris 1970 (collected articles)
- Nouvelles études religieuses (Espagne et Amérique espagnole). Ouvrage publié en hommage à l'auteur , Paris 1973
- (Translator) Louis de Léon, Les Noms du Christ , Paris 1978
literature
- François Chevalier, [Obituary] in: Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez 21, 1985, pp. 5-8
- Alphonse Vermeylen, obituary in: Bulletin Hispanique 88, 1986, pp. 279-281
- Marie-Cécile Bénassy-Berling, Recordando a Robert Ricard, in: Revista de Indias 56, 206, 1996, pp. 237-241
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Ricard in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ricard, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian, Romanist and Hispanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th August 1984 |
| Place of death | Paris |