John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald

John Driscoll Fitz- Gerald ( born May 2, 1873 in Newark, New Jersey; † June 8, 1946 ) was an American linguist and Hispanist.

Life and work

Fitz- Gerald studied at Columbia College and in Berlin, Leipzig, Paris ( with Gaston Paris and Alfred Morel - Fatio ) and Madrid. He received his Ph.D. in 1906 at Columbia University working with the versification of the " cuaderna via " as found in Berceo 's Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos (New York 1905, 1966). From 1909 to 1929 he taught at the University of Illinois, from 1915 as a professor of Spanish, from 1925 of Romance. From 1929 until his retirement in 1943 he was a professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Fitz- Gerald was 1921-1923 president of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese ( AATSP ). He was a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española and Knight of the Orden de Isabel la Católica.

Other works

• (Ed.) Gonzalo de Berceo, La vida de Santo Domingo de Silos, Paris 1904
• Rambles in Spain, New York 1910
• (Eds. ), Lope de Vega, Novelas à la Señora Marcia Leonarda, in: Romanesque research 34, 1913
• (Ed. and translator with Thatcher Howland Guild ) Manuel Tamayo y Baus, A New Drama ( Un Drama Nuevo ). A Tragedy in three acts, New York 1915
• Importance of Spanish to the American citizen, Chicago 1918
• Apuntes sobre la literatura americana ( de los Estados Unidos de América ), Madrid 1924
• The Hispanic Society of America y la fiesta de la Raza, Madrid 1924
• Relaciones hispano- americanas. Dos conferencias leídas en el Ateneo científico - literario - artistico de Madrid en los días 29 y 30 de junio de 1923, Madrid 1924
• (Ed. with John McMurry Hill ), Manuel Tamayo y Baus, Un drama nuevo, drama en tres actos, Chicago / New York 1924
• (Ed. with Alberto Nin Frias ) José Enrique Rodó, Ariel, Chicago / New York 1928
• (Ed. with Pauline Taylor) Todd memorial volumes. Philological studies, New York 1930, Freeport 1968