Gustavo Durán
Gustavo Durán Martínez | |
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Birth name | Gustavo Durán Martínez |
Born | November 4, 1906 |
Died | March 26, 1969 | (aged 62)
Allegiance | Spanish Republic |
Service/ | Army |
Years of service | 1936–1939 |
Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
Commands held | Mixed brigade (1936), chief of the SIM in the Central zone (1937), Division (1936-1938) |
Battles/wars | Spanish Civil War |
Gustavo Durán Martínez (1906–1969) was a Spanish composer,[1] Lieutenant Colonel in the Spanish military, diplomat and United Nations official.[2]
Early life
Born in
Spanish civil war
He served in the
Exile
In May 1940, Durán emigrated to
UN officer
In October, 1946, after rising to the position of special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State, he resigned from the State Department and entered the United Nations,[13] where he served as an officer in the Social Department of the Refugee Division. He was accused that year by a U.S. Representative,
Family
Durán married Bontë Romilly Crompton, in Totnes, Devon on 4 Dec 1939.[16] Bontë (15 May 1914 - 6 January 2002) was the eldest daughter of David Henry Crompton and Lillian MacDonald Sheridan; she was a great-granddaughter of John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly, her sister Catherine married Baron Henry Walston.
Durán and Bontë were the parents of Cheli Durán Ryan, an author of children's books; Lucy Durán, ethnomusicologist; and Jane Duran, poet.[17]
In fiction
His figure inspired Hemingway's
Footnotes
- ^ a b Preston, Paul. The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution & Revenge. Harper Perennial. London. 2006. p.112
- ^ Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. 2001. pp.477
- ^ Gustavo Durán: memoria de un español polifacético, Jorge de Persia, Centro de Documentación, Residencia de Estudiantes.
- ^ Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. 2001. pp. 476-477
- ^ a b Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. 2001. p. 477
- ^ Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. 2001. p. 478
- ^ Beevor, Antony (2006). The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Penguin Books. pp.275-276
- ^ Beevor, Antony. The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Penguin Books. London. 2006. 278
- ^ Preston, Paul. The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution & Revenge. Harper Perennial. London. 2006. pp. 282-283
- ^ Preston, Paul. The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution & Revenge. Harper Perennial. London. 2006. p.287
- ^ Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. 2001. p. 810
- ^ Beevor, Antony. The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Penguin Books. London. 2006. 305
- ^ a b c "CONGRESS: Weighed in the Balance". Time. October 22, 1951. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012.
- ^ United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Senate Resolution 231 (1950). "State Department employee loyalty investigation : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, second session pursuant to S. Res. 231, a resolution to investigate whether there are employees in the State Department disloyal to the United States". Internet Archive. Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "The tomb of Gustav Duran in Crete". Internet Archive.
- ^ "BONTE R. CROMPTON IS WED IN ENGLAND; Daughter of Rye, N.Y., Couple Married to Gustavo Duran of Madrid on Dec. 4". The New York Times. December 13, 1939.
- ^ Duran, Lucy. "Jane Duran's 'Spanish Peasant Boy' featured as part of Radio 3's Poetry Season". Enitharmon Press. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ Gustavo Durán en las novelas de Ernest Hemingway y André Malraux, Javier Rupérez, Revista de Occidente, ISSN 0034-8635, Nº 307, 2006 , pages 51-80
References
- Beevor, Antony. The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Penguin Books. London. 2006. ISBN 0-14-303765-X
- Preston, Paul. The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution & Revenge. Harper Perennial. London. 2006.
- Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. 2001. ISBN 978-0-14-101161-5
- Myers, Jeffrey (Autumn 1985). "The Quest for Hemingway". VQR Online. 61 (4). Retrieved 20 October 2014.
External links
- "Gustavo Duran of the U.N. Dies". The New York Times. March 27, 1969. p. 47.
- Pictures from the Historical Archive of the Communist Party of Spain