Vicente Llorens

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Vicente Llorens (born January 10, 1906 in Valencia , † July 5, 1979 in Cofrentes , Province of Valencia ) was a Spanish Romanist and Hispanist who worked in the United States.

life and work

Llorens (also: Lloréns ) studied in Valencia and Madrid. From 1926 he was a Spanish editor in Genoa , then with Leo Spitzer in Marburg (1927–1928) and Cologne (1929–1933). In 1933 he returned to Spain and did research with Ramón Menéndez Pidal and Américo Castro . In the Spanish Civil War he was on the side of the Republican General Julius Deutsch .

In 1939 Llorens went to Santo Domingo and taught at the university there. In 1945 he moved to the University of Puerto Rico . From 1947 to 1949 he taught at the side of Leo Spitzer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . Then he went through the mediation of Américo Castro at the Princeton University , first as an associate professor, from 1956 until his retirement in 1972 as professor of Spanish. Until 1976 he taught at Stony Brook University on Rhode Island . He returned to Spain at the age of 70 and lived in Jalance, 70 km southwest of Valencia, until his death.

The Vicente Llorens Castillo Senior Prize in Spanish at Princeton University is named after him. In Jalance the "Biblioteca Vicente Llorens Castillo" bears his name.

Works

  • (Ed.) Antología de la literatura dominicana , 2 vols., Santiago de los Caballeros 1944, Santo Domingo 1987
  • Liberales y Románticos. Una emigración española en Inglaterra, 1823-1834 , Mexico City 1954, Madrid 1968, 1979, Valencia 1979, 2006
  • Literatura, historia, política (Ensayos) , Madrid 1967
  • (Ed.) Antonio Alcalá Galiano , Literatura española siglo XIX. De Moratín a Rivas , Madrid 1969
  • (Ed.) Joseph Blanco White , Antología de obras en español , Barcelona 1971
  • Aspectos sociales de la literatura española , Madrid 1974
  • La emigración republicana de 1939 , Madrid 1976
  • El Romanticismo español , Madrid 1980 (posthumous)
  • Estudios y ensayos sobre el exilio republicano español de 1939 , ed. by Manuel Aznar Soler, Seville 2006

literature

  • Vicente Llorens, Memorias de una emigración. Santo Domingo 1939-1945 , Barcelona 1975; ed. by Manuel Aznar Soler, Barcelona 2006
  • Clara E. Lida, Vicente Llorens (1906-1979). El hombre, el exilio y la obra, in: La Numancia errante. Exilio republicano de 1939 y patrimonio cultural , ed. by José Ignacio Cruz Orozco et al., Valencia 2002, pp. 145-174
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann, "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the "Third Reich" , 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 313 (index entry p. 804 needs to be corrected)

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personal data
SURNAME Llorens, Vicente
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lloréns Castillo, Vicente; Lloréns, Vicente; Llorens Castillo, Vicente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Romanist and Hispanicist who worked in the United States
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Valencia
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1979
Place of death Cofrentes , Valencia Province