Manuel José Quintana

Manuel José Quintana y Lorenzo ( born April 11, 1772 in Madrid, † March 11, 1857 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet and playwright.

Life

Quintana studied in Cordoba and Salamanca 's rights and was then called to the Bar in Madrid, where he gradually became a fiscal agent of the trade junta Theaterzensor, General Secretary of the Central Junta and secretary in the Translation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After the invasion of the French, he was one of the most active members of the Patriotic Party and others founded the Semanario patriótico, which especially was intended to encourage the resistance against foreign rule.

He also edited the Variedades de ciencias, literatura y arte, one of the best Spanish journals of its kind He also wrote most of proclamations and manifestos of the insurrectionary juntas.

Nevertheless, he was persecuted as a disseminator of liberal ideas by Ferdinand VII returned and kept in custody until the revolution of 1820 gave him his freedom.

In his previous positions reinstated, he received in 1821 nor the post of President of the General Study Commission, but lost in the restoration of 1823 all those offices again and retired, expelled from Madrid, in the Extremadura back until it on in 1828 by an ode the marriage of Ferdinand VII permission to return to the capital -bought.

In 1833 he was again Secretary of the Translation Bureau, later a member of the First Chamber, Director General of Public Instruction and educators of Queen Isabella II, March 25, 1855 which crowned him in a public meeting of the Cortes a poet.

Work

From Quintana's poems, which appeared in 1795 and 1802, his odes were particularly excellent, and among these the Oda a la mar is preferably famous.

All but have become immensely popular due to their patriotism. Of lesser importance are Quintana's drama. Also, as a historian Quintana has made ​​itself a name by its Vidas de Españoles célebres.

Finally, he has by his tasteful anthologies from the Spanish poets rendered outstanding services to the history of Spanish poetry POESIAS Selectas castellanas desde el tiempo de Juan de Mena and Musa Epica castellana. Collected published his works in the 19th band of Luca de Tena y Biblioteca de autores Bethe Courts españoles desde la formación del lenguaje hasta nuestros días ( indices generales, tomos 72 a 225; Madrid: Rivadeneyra Madrid: Ediciones Atlas, 1970. ), Then as Obras poeticas.

Works of Spanish

• Vidas de españolas célebres: El Cid; Guzmán el Bueno; Roger de Lauria. Madrid: Espasa - Calpe, 1959.
• POESIAS completas. Ed. , Introducción y notas de Albert derozier. Madrid: Ed. Castalia, 1980. ISBN 84-7039-094-5.
• Selección poética. Manuel J. Quintana. Ed. prep. por Rogelio Reyes Cano. Madrid: Ed. Nacional, 1978 Biblioteca de la literatura y el pensamiento Hispánicos. ; 33 H.

Works of German

• Biographies of famous Spaniards. Übers by Wolf Count von Baudissin. Berlin: Reimer, 1857.