Raimundo Lida

Raimundo Lida (* November 15, 1908 in Lviv, † June 20, 1979 in Cambridge ( Massachusetts)) was an Argentine and American linguist and Hispanist Jewish- Galician descent.

Life and work

Lida came as an infant to Argentina, where he acquired citizenship in 1930. He studied in Buenos Aires in Amado Alonso. From 1936 to 1946 he took without pay the chair of aesthetics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. From 1937 to 1943 he was librarian of the Library of the Central Bank. In 1939 he took a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation was. From 1943 he was editor of the Revista de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. He received his doctorate in 1943 at the University of Buenos Aires with the work Belleza y arte en la poesía estética de Santayana (Tucumán 1943).

In 1947, he left Argentina and went at the invitation of Alfonso Reyes Mexico to the Research Institute of Literature and Linguistics El Colegio de México. He taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1953 he was appointed as the successor of Amado Alonso at Harvard University and earned 1958 U.S. citizenship. From 1968 he occupied in the Harvard Smith Chair.

Raimundo Lida was the brother of María Rosa Lida de Malkiel. He was married to his second wife Denah Lida.

Other works

• (Ed. and translator with Amado Alonso ) Introducción a la estilística romance, por Karl Vossler, Leo Spitzer y Helmut Hatzfeld, Buenos Aires 1932
• ( with Charles Bally, Elise Richter and Amado Alonso ) El Impresionismo en el lenguaje, Buenos Aires 1936, 3rd edition 1956
• (Ed. with Amado Alonso ) El Español en Chile, trabajos de Rodolfo Lenz, Andrés Bello y Rodolfo Oroz, Buenos Aires 1940
• Letras hispanicas. Estudios. Esquemas, Mexico 1958 1981
• Prosas de Quevedo, Barcelona 1980
• Rubén Darío. Modernism, Caracas 1984
• Hispanic Studies, Mexico 1988