José Luis Munárriz
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| Born | José Luis Munárriz Iraizoz 26 August 1762 Estella-Lizarra, Spain |
| Died | 18 July 1830 (aged 67) Madrid, Spain |
| Pen name | Pablo Zamalloa |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Alma mater | University of Salamanca |
| Genre | Poetry, essay, literary criticism |
José Luis Munárriz (1762–1830) was a Spanish literary critic, translator and writer.
Biography[]
Munárriz completed his literary career, which ended at the age of twenty-two, at the University of Salamanca, where he remained until 1796 in order to complete his studies.[1] He practiced literary criticism in the Semanario de Salamanca under the pseudonym Pablo Zamalloa. He settled in Madrid in 1796 and entered the service of the , where he first obtained the job of secretary. On 2 October of that same year he was elected an honorary member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando; he was in charge of studying and reforming the teaching of the arts and on 1 May 1807, he was appointed its secretary, a position from which he resigned due to incompatibilities with other jobs in 1815, although he continued as a chaplain.[1]
With the Napoleonic invasion he emigrated to Galicia and returned to Madrid in 1813. On 30 March 1815 he was appointed director of the Philippine Company.[1] He was a friend of the liberal poet Manuel José Quintana and published numerous verses in the daily press, but was known above all for his translations, especially the Lecciones sobre la Retórica y las Bellas Letras (1798-1799),[1] published in 1783 by the Scottish Hugh Blair, to which he added a study on six poems of Spanish cultured epics; in the third reissue of 1822 he also added an essay on Spanish literature, anticipating Romanticism in some respects. He published a Compendium of this work in 1815. In 1814 he was elected a full member by the Royal Spanish Academy.[2][1]
With the liberal revolution of Rafael del Riego, he was a member of the Patriotic Society of Pamplona in 1820.[1] He published Suplemento al Correo Universal de Literatura y Política, o Refutación de sus números 1 y 2 en lo relativo a la Compañía de Filipinas (1820). From 1821 to 1823 he was an individual of the General Directorate of Studies and in 1822 a member of the Board of Freedom of the Press.[1] He was also a deputy to the Cortes for Navarre[specify] between 1822 and 1823.[3]
Works[]
- Lecciones sobre la Retórica y las Bellas Letras (Madrid, 1798-1799, 4 vols., 2nd edition Madrid, 1804)
- La Tragedia de Macbeth by William Shakespeare, 1819. (translation)
- Suplemento al Correo Universal de Literatura y Política, o Refutación de sus números 1 y 2 en lo relativo a la Compañía de Filipinas (Madrid, 1820, dated 30 June)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "José Luis Munárriz Iraizoz" (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ^ "José Munárriz" (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 22 January 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ^ Gil Novales, Alberto (1992). Diccionario Biográfico del Trienio Liberal (in Spanish). Madrid: El Museo Universal. p. 456.
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- 1762 births
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- People from Navarre
- Spanish male writers
- Spanish male poets
- Spanish literary critics
- Spanish translators
- University of Salamanca alumni
- University of Salamanca faculty
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- 18th-century Spanish poets
- 19th-century Spanish poets
- English–Spanish translators
- Translators of William Shakespeare