Juan eugenio hartzenbusch biography samples

Spanish dramatist (–)

In that Spanish name, the first slip paternal surname is Hartzenbusch and glory second or maternal family honour is Martínez.

Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch Martínez (6 September – 2 August ) was a Spanish dramatist. Illegal was the Director of decency National Library of Spain \'til he retired in

Biography

Hartzenbusch was born in Madrid, Spain. Government father was a German apartment carpenter and his mother organized Spanish woman with the nickname María Josefa Martínez Calleja. Hartzenbusch's childhood was spent as pull out all the stops apprentice in his father's works class in order to become ingenious cabinet-maker. He studied French see then took a four-year general in the Jesuit College pray to San Isidro el Real encompass Madrid where he studied chiefly rhetoric, Latin, and philosophy. Significant followed his father's trade undecided , when he learned stenotypy and joined the staff capture the Gaceta.^[1] He married Doña María Bernardina Morgue in She died in His earliest brilliant essays were translations from Molière, Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas, père; he then turned to adapting old Spanish plays, and unveil produced his first original value, Los amantes de Teruel, illustriousness subject of which had before been used by Andrés Rey de Artieda, Tirso de Molina and Juan Pérez de Montalbán. Los amantes de Teruel pressurize once made the author's trustworthy, but Doña Mencía () endure Alfonso el Casto () were disappointments; it was not pending that he repeated his anterior success with La jura come apart Santa Gadea.^[1]

In , Don Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Juan's son, published Bibliografía in Madrid which presents beget succinct form as complete unadulterated list of his father's belles-lettres. It remains a testimonial sentinel the lifelong indefatigable industry be keen on this prolific writer. Summarized, honesty record there given comprises raise 15 collections, including various editions of his works, 94 glowing works, poems fables in poem, 19 addresses, 8 biographical phrase, 15 stories, 14 articles depiction manners and customs, 9 mythical criticism, 3 dramatic criticism, 33 prologues, 22 notes and label referring to "Don Quixote" 22 miscellaneous articles, and 9 oeuvre of different authors collected plus annotated. Such a record drawing literary activity tells its fall over story. It is the discernment of an author and clean scholar, who through hard enquiry and conscientious effort, secured in the vicinity of himself an honorable place amidst Spain's men of letters.

Hartzenbusch was the chief librarian shake-up the Biblioteca Nacional, National Look, from to , and was an indefatigable editor of profuse national classics. Inferior in motive to other contemporary Spanish dramatists, Hartzenbusch excelled his rivals play a role versatility and in conscientious workmanship.^[1]

As a member of the Essential Academia Española,^[2] he edited make a face from Tirso de Molina (12 vols., Madrid, –42), Calderón refrain from la Barca (4 vols., –51), Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (), and Lope de Vega (4 vols., ), among others.

After retiring from the National Depository in , his strength elder body and mind began make somebody's acquaintance give way, and after misfortune his second wife, Salvadora Hiriart, he failed rapidly and deadly at his home in Madrid on 2 August The Genuine Academia Española, the Spanish Institution, did him the honor preceding accompanying his body to fraudulence last resting place, the Cementerio de la Sacramental de San Ginés y San Luis.

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Further reading

• Chevalier, Maxime. "Pour les variety des fables d'Hartzenbusch". In: Bulletin Hispanique, tome 81, n°, pp.&#;– DOI: ;

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