Américo Castro

Américo Castro y Quesada ( born May 4, 1885 in the favela, Brazil, † July 25, 1972 in Lloret de Mar, Spain) was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, literary critic and diplomat who, through his study España en su historia - Cristianos, moros y Judíos 1938 the greatest historians dispute during the era of Francisco Franco unleashed.

Biography

Castro was born to Spanish parents and raised in Brazil after their return in 1890 in Spain, where he studied post-school at the University of Granada. After completion of this study in 1904, he completed 1905-1907 postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne.

After his return to Spain he became in 1910 member of the newly established Centre for Historical Studies (Centro de Estudios Historical ), where he was Head of the Department of lexicography.

In 1915 he accepted an appointment as professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and taught there until 1931.

After the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, it was founded in 1931 whose first ambassador of the German Empire and retained the post until his replacement by Luis Araquistain in 1932.

After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 he went into exile in the United States. There he was first in 1937 professor of literature at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, before he taught in this role at the University of Texas at Austin 1939-1940. Most recently, he was from 1940 until his retirement in 1953 professor of literature at Princeton University.

The Spanish historian of the Middle Ages Eduardo Manzano Moreno was critical of Castro's historical works. Regarding the alleged harmony between Muslims, Jews and Christians in Cordoba Caliphate Manzano wrote that Castro had not followed the customs of history, and that he could show no historical evidence for this term Convivencia.

Publications

With its 1938 published study España en su historia - Cristianos, moros y Judíos he aroused much controversy due to its historical conclusions that the Castilians would not become a separate ethnic group, if it was not 711 come to the conquest of Spain by the Muslims, an event that converted it into an existing alongside Islam and Judaism Christian group. A second, also heavily criticized conclusion was that the history of Spain and Portugal were impacted permanent by the success of the 11th and 15th century, called Reconquista reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula and the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492.

Castro was also the author of numerous other scientific papers and books. His major publications include:

  • Vida de Lope de Vega, 1919
  • El elemento extraño en el lenguaje, 1921
  • La enseñanza del español en España, 1922
  • Juan de Lara y su time " Filosofía vulgar", 1923
  • Lengua, enseñanza y literatura, 1924
  • Don Juan en la literatura española, 1924
  • El pensamiento de Cervantes, 1925
  • El nuevo Diccionario de la Academia Española, 1925
  • Santa Teresa y otros ensayos, 1932
  • Los ProLogos al Quijote, 1941
  • Lo Hispánico y el erasmismo, 1942
  • Antonio de Guevara, 1945
  • La realidad histórica de España, 1954
  • Semblanzas y estudios españoles, 1956
  • Hacia Cervantes, 1958
  • Origen, ser y existir de los españoles, 1959
  • De la edad conflictiva, 1961
  • La peculiaridad lingüística rioplatense, 1961
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