Manuel Seco
Manuel Seco | |
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Born | Manuel Seco Reymundo 20 September 1928 Real Academia Española |
In office 23 November 1980[a] – 16 December 2021 | |
Preceded by | Vicente García de Diego |
Succeeded by | Pedro Manuel Cátedra |
Manuel Seco Reymundo (20 September 1928 – 16 December 2021
Career
Seco was born on 20 September 1928 in Madrid, Spain.[2] His father was Rafael Seco y Sánchez (1895–1933) and his mother Carmen Reymundo Mariño.[3] He obtained a degree in philology of the Romance languages at the Central University of Madrid in 1952. He was awarded a further doctorate with the same specialization in 1969, also from the Central University.[2]
In 1960 he started as a professor of Spanish language and literature at various educational facilities. Two years later he took up a position at the lexicography department of the
Seco is best known for his two lexicographic works on the Spanish language: el Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española, a dictionary on doubts and difficulties of the Spanish language, and the Diccionario del español actual, a dictionary of present-day Spanish which he co-authored with Gabino Ramos and Olimpia Andrés.[5][6]
Awards and honors
Seco was elected to Seat A of the
In 1999 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise.[2]
In 2015 Seco won the Menéndez Pelayo International Prize.[5]
Notes
- ^ Elected on 5 April 1979
References
- ^ Muere Manuel Seco, lexicógrafo y académico de la Real Academia Española (in Spanish)
- ^ a b c d e "Manuel Seco Reymundo". Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
- ISBN 8-4971-7183-7, p. 13 [1]
- ^ Tereixa Constenla (21 October 2011). "Medio siglo de lupa sobre el español" (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ^ a b "Premio Internacional Menéndez Pelayo" (in Spanish). Menéndez Pelayo International University. Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
- ^ https://www.ub.edu/geocrit/b3w-239.htm
- ^ "Académicos de número - Relación actual" (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
External links
- Juan Crespo, Ideas de Manuel Seco sobre la enseñanza de la lengua y literatura españolas génesis, arquitectura y evolución. Cauce, Revista de Filología y su Didáctica, n° 26, 2003 /págs. 67-139. Centro Virtual Cervantes