Fernando Ortiz

Fernando Ortiz Fernández ( * July 16, 1881 in Havana, † April 10, 1969 ) was a Cuban scientists, politicians and lawyers. He is considered the founder of the Cuban anthropology and ethnomusicology. In this role, he was the teacher of a whole generation of modern Cuban anthropologist. He also made ​​a name for himself as the author of criminological and historiographical writings.

Fernando Ortiz, or simply Don Fernando was born in Havana and spent his childhood in Menorca in Spain. In 1895 he returned to Havana, where he began to study law. He finished studying in Barcelona in Spain and in Madrid earns doctoral degrees.

Ortiz enters the Diplomatic Service and consul in A Coruña, Geneva and Marseille. In 1906 he will advocate with the Cuban Court of Auditors, 1908 Professor of Law in Havana, where he teaches Public Law, Political Economy and Constitutional Law. In 1914 he co-founded the Cuban People's University. From 1917 on, he is ten years a deputy in the Cuban Parliament for the Liberal Party. 1931 must seek Fernando Ortiz exile in the United States because he had turned into a manifesto against the Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado. 1933, after the fall of Machado, he returns to Cuba. 1949 is the founding president of the Cuban Peace Movement.

Because of his pioneering research Fernando Ortiz also "Third discoverer of Cuba " is called (after Christopher Columbus and Alexander von Humboldt ).

One of his students is the Cuban anthropologist and writer Miguel Barnet, the date, the Foundation Fernando Ortiz passes.

Works

Co-founder of:

  • Revista Cubana Bimestre ( Cuban bi-monthly magazine )
  • Archivos del Folklore Cubano ( Cuban Folklore Archive for )
  • Estudios Afrocubanos ( Afro-Cuban Studies )
  • La hampa afro cubana: Los negros brujos ( The Afro-Cuban Underworld: The black sorcerer, 1902)
  • Las rebelliones de los afro- cubanos (Afro Cuban rebellions, 1910)
  • Entre cubanos: psicologia tropical (sub Cubans: Tropical Psychology, 1913)
  • Hampa afro- cubana: Los negros esclavos ( The Afro-Cuban underworld: the black slaves, 1916)
  • La fiesta del afro cubana ' Dia de Reyes ' ( The Afro-Cuban Festival ' Day of the Kings, 1920)
  • Historia de la Archeology indocubana (History of indokubanischen Archaeology, 1922)
  • Glosario de afronegrismos (black African Glossary, 1924)
  • Glosario de Cubanismos ( Glossary of Kubanismen, 1924)
  • Cubano del tabaco y el Contrapunteo azúcar (Cuba: Counterpoint of Tobacco and Sugar, 1940)
  • Marti y las razas ( Martí and the race question, 1942)
  • Las cuatro culturas indias de Cuba ( The four Indian cultures of Cuba, 1943)
  • El engaño de las razas ( The breed fraud, 1945)
  • El huracán, mitologia su y sus símboles ( The Hurricane, its mythology and symbols, 1950)
  • Los Bailes y el teatro de los negros en el folklore de Cuba ( dance and theater of blacks in the Cuban Folklore, 1951)
  • La africania de la música cubana African ( The African in the Afro-Cuban Music, 1955)
  • Los instrumentos de la música cubana African ( The instruments of Afro-Cuban Music, 1955)
  • Historia de una pelea cubana contra los demonios ( story of a Cuban struggle against the demons, 1959)

After his death appeared:

  • Bio - bibliografia de Fernando Ortiz (Bio- bibliography of Fernando Ortíz, 1973)
  • Los negros Curros ( Black Dandies, 1986)
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