Emilio Oribe
Emilio Oribe ( born April 13, 1893 in Melo, † May 24 1975 in Montevideo) was an Uruguayan writer and philosopher.
Biography (excerpt)
Oribe, Oribe and son Nicolás Virginia colonel, initially grew up in his native town. After a move to Montevideo he sat there from 1905 continued his education and joined this in 1912 from the High School. It was followed by a medical degree, which he successfully completed in 1919. From a stay in Europe returned, he settled in 1925 in San Jose down, and gave lectures there in philosophy. A year later he was appointed professor of literature at the Universidad de Mujeres and philosophy at the " Sección de Enseñanza Secundaria y Preparatoria ". From 1919, for its part, also several publications appeared. Later followed by further abroad in the United States (1942 and 1961 ), England ( 1949), Mexico and Cuba ( 1951) as well as India, Greece and Turkey ( 1956). He was a professor at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, where he had in 1958 the position as dean of humanities and faculty of education ( " Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y Humanidades " ) held. In the same year, he was also Vice- President of the, held in Buenos Aires " VI.Congreso de Interamericano de Filosofía ". In his works he dealt, Carlos Vaz Ferreira comparable to José Enrique Rodó, and, among others, the cultural problems of his native country and Latin America in general. Oribe died on 24 May 1975 at the Hospital Maciel from cancer and was buried in the cemetery of Melo.
Works
- El Halconero astral (1919)
- La colina del pájaro rojo (1925 )
- Poética y Plástica (1930 )
- Teoría del Nous (1934 )
- El pensamiento vivo de Rodó (1945 )
- El mito y el logos (1945 )
- Trascendencia y platonismo s poesía (1948 )
- La Intuition estética del tiempo (1951 )
- La dinámica del verbo (1953 )
- Tres ideal estéticos (1958 )
Awards
- Premio Nacional de Literatura del Ministerio de Instrucción Pública (1963 )
- Honorary doctorate from the Facultad de Ciencias y Humanidades (1964 )