Irving A. Leonard

Irving Albert Leonard ( born December 1, 1896 in New Haven (Connecticut ); † August 30, 1996 in Alexandria ( Virginia)) was an American historian, linguist and Hispanist.

Life and work

Leonard studied at Yale University ( completion 1918). Then he spent several years in the Philippines. He has studied at the University of California at Berkeley (Master 1928). There he received his doctorate in 1928 with the work of Don Carlos de Siguenza y Góngora. His life and works from 1645 to 1700. He has toured Latin America and Europe, was from 1937 to 1940 in the Rockefeller Foundation operates.

From 1940 to 1942 he taught at Brown University, Spanish and history. In 1942 he went to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as a professor of Latin American literature. He occupied including the Richard Hudson Research Professorship in History and in 1962 the Domingo Faustino Sarmiento University Professorship of Spanish - American History and Literature. In 1966 he became Professor Emeritus.

Leonard was a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua.

Works

Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora

• Don Carlos de Siguenza y Góngora. A Mexican savant of the seventeenth century, Berkeley 1929
• Ensayo de Don Carlos de Siguenza bibliografico y Góngora, Mexico 1929
• (Ed.) Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, Poemas, con un estudio preliminar de Abreu E. Gómez, Madrid 1931
• (Ed. and translator ) The Mercurio volante of Don Carlos de Siguenza y Góngora. An account of the first expedition of Don Diego de Vargas into New Mexico in 1692, Los Angeles in 1932, New York 1967
• (Ed.) alboroto Motin de México y del 8 de junio de 1692nd Relación de don Carlos de Siguenza y Góngora en una carta al Dirigida almirante don Andrés de Pez, Mexico 1932
• (Ed.) ineditos Documentos de don Carlos de Siguenza y Góngora. La Real Universidad de México y don Carlos de Siguenza y Góngora. El reconocimiento de la Bahía de Santa María de Galve, Mexico 1963
• ( Preface to ) Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, Seis obras, ed. by William G. Bryant, Caracas 1984

Other monographs

• Romances of chivalry in the Spanish Indies, Berkeley 1933
• ( with Robert Kilburn Spaulding ) Spanish in review, New York, 1938; ud T. Spanish review grammar, New York 1945, 1967
• Books of the Brave. Being an account of books and of men in the Spanish conquest and settlement of the sixteenth -century New World, Cambridge, Mass.. 1949, New York 1964, Berkeley 1992 (Spanish: Los libros del conquistador, Mexico, 1953, 1959, 1979, La Habana, 1983; Berkeley 1999)
• Baroque Times in Old Mexico. Seventeenth - Century Persons, Places and Practices, Ann Arbor 1959, Westport, Conn. 1981 ( HE Bolton Prize [ later Bolton -Johnson Prize ]; Spanish: La época barroca en el México colonial, Mexico 1974)
• When bike hood which in flower. Sketches of early cycling, South Tamworth, NH 1969
• Portraits and essays. Historical and literary sketches of early Spanish America, ed. by William C. Bryant, Newark, Del. 1986 ( Spanish:. Ensayos y semblanzas Bosquejos historicos Literarios y de la America Latina colonial, Mexico 1990)

Other publishing activities

• (Ed. with Robert Kilburn Spaulding ) Jacinto Benavente, Los malhechores del bien, New York 1933
• (Eds. ), Lope de Vega, El Desden vengado, Madrid 1935
• (Eds. ), Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo, Obras dramáticas, Santiago de Chile 1937
• (Ed. and translator ) Spanish approach to Pensacola 1689-1693, Albuquerque, 1939, New York 1967
• (Ed.) Jerónimo de Vivar, Crónica y relación copiosa verdadera y de los Reynos de Chile, Santiago de Chile, 1960 (? )
• (Ed.) Colonial travel travelers in Latin America, New York, 1972 ( in Spanish: América latina Viajeros por la colonial, Mexico 1992)
• (Ed.) The Florida Adventures of Kirk Munroe. Narrative and biographical, Chuluota, Fla.. 1975