Agustín Durán
Agustín Durán | |
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Real Academia Española | |
In office 25 February 1847 – 1 December 1862 | |
Preceded by | Seat established |
Succeeded by | Enrique Ramírez de Saavedra |
Agustín Durán (14 October 1789 – 1 December 1862), Spanish scholar, was born in Madrid, where his father was the court physician.
Durán was sent to the seminary at
In 1834, Durán became secretary of the board for the censorship of the press, and shortly afterwards obtained a post in the national library at Madrid. The revolution of 1840 led to his dismissal, but he was reinstated in 1843. In 1854, Durán was appointed as the chief librarian. The next year, however, he retired to devote himself to his literary work. In 1828, shortly after his first discharge from office, he published anonymously his Discurso sobre el influjo que ha tenido la critica moderna en la decadencia del teatro antiguo; this treatise greatly influenced the younger dramatists of the day.[1]
He next endeavoured to interest his fellow-countrymen in their ancient, neglected ballads, and in the forgotten dramas of the 17th century. Five volumes of a Romancero general appeared from 1828 to 1832 (republished, with considerable additions, in 2 vols. 1849–1851), and Talía española (1834), a reprint of old Spanish comedies. Durán's Romancero general is the fullest collection of the kind and is therefore unlikely to be superseded, though the texts are inferior to those edited by Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo.[1]
Durán died in Madrid.[2]
References
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Durán, Agustín". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 692. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Real Academia Española(in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
External links
- Works by or about Agustín Durán at Internet Archive
- Works by Agustín Durán at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)