Pedro Henríquez Ureña

Pedro Henríquez Ureña ( born June 29, 1884 in Santo Domingo, † May 11 1946 in Buenos Aires ) was a Dominican writer and philologist.

Life

Pedro Henríquez Ureña was born into a family of intellectuals. His mother was Salomé Ureña, a significant Dominican poet and feminist, and his grandfather Nicolas Ureña de Mendoza was a politician.

After completing his schooling, he emigrated to Mexico from 1906. There, he studied philosophy and later worked as a lecturer in philology at the University. In the years immediately before the Mexican Revolution, he was a member of a liberal intellectual circles, to which Alfonso Reyes, Antonio Caso and José Vasconcelos included. Among other things, thanks to these encounters, he began in Mexico with his study of Hispanic language and Hispanic-American identity, with which he is associated today.

In 1915 he emigrated from Mexico to the United States, where he spent with some interruptions due to longer trips over the next decade and a half. He first worked as a journalist, from 1921 he was appointed professor in Minnesota. In 1930, he moved to Argentina to conduct research on Philology Institute of the University of Buenos Aires and to teach.

Pedro Henríquez Ureña died on 11 May 1946 in Buenos Aires. The Dominican Poetry Prize Premio Nacional de Poesía Pedro Henríquez Ureña was named in his honor.

Works

• Ensayos críticos (1905, La Habana )
• Horas de estudio (1910, Paris)
• Nacimiento de Dionisio (1916 )
• En la orilla: mi España ( 1922)
• La utopía de América (1925 )
• Apuntaciones sobre la novela en América (1927 )
• Seis en busca de nuestra ensayos expresión (PDF, 649 kB ) ( 1928)
• La cultura y las letras coloniales en Santo Domingo ( 1936)
• Sobre el problema del andalucismo dialectal de América (1937 )
• El español en Santo Domingo ( 1940)
• Plenitud de España ( 1940)
• Corrientes liter Arias en la América Hispana (1941 )
• Historia de la cultura en la América Hispana (1947 )