Rafael Delgado (author)

Rafael Delgado (20 August 1853 - 20 May 1914) was a Mexican author. In 1896, he became a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, occupying the 12th (XII) chair.^[1]

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Biography

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Delgado was born on 20 August 1853 in Córdoba, Veracruz, to Pedro Delgado and María de Jesús Sáinz.^[3] His parents were religious conservatives and moved the family to Orizaba after increasing liberal sentiment in Córdoba.^[3] Delgado earned a degree in education from the Colegio Nacional de Orizaba, where he subsequently taught literature and history.^[3]

Delgado was invited by José López Portillo y Rojas, the Governor of Jalisco, to serve as director of the state's department of education, though his arthritis forced him to return to Orizaba shortly afterward.^[3] He died on 20 May 1914, having never married.^[3]

Works

Mi vida en Soledad (1879)
Antes de la boda monólogo (1899)
La calandria novela (1890)
Angelina novela (1893)
Los parientes ricos cuentos y notas (1901)
Historia vulgar novela corta (1904)
Lecciones de literatura (1904)
Lecciones de geografía histórica (1910)
Sonetos publicación póstuma (1940)
Mi única mentira...
Himno a Nicolás Bravo

References

^ "Esbozo histórico de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
^ Andrés Henestrosa (1975). "Rafael Delgado". In Semblanzas de académicos (ed.). Nuestros centenarios: humanistas mexicanos. Mexico: Ediciones del Centenario de la Academia Mexicana. Archived from the original on 4 March 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "1853: Nace Rafael Delgado, uno de los más destacados narradores decimonónicos". El Siglo de Durango (in Spanish). 20 August 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2023.