Ricardo Jaimes Freyre

Ricardo Jaimes Freyre (12 of May of 1868 -8 of November 1933) was a poet, writer and diplomat Bolivian-Argentinean.


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Origins

Been born the 12 from May of 1868. Son of Julio Lucas Jaimes, potosino writer whose pseudónimo outside “He broaches Fat person”, and Carolina Freyre, native writer of Tacna, city in which was born the writer during the stay of its father in her like consul by Bolivia, and in that would live the initial stage on his life.

In 1886, his eighteen years it knew in Bolivia Soruco Happiness, with that married and had three children: Víctor, Yolanda and Mario.

Modernismo

Member of the modernist Movement in Literature, founded during 1899 on Buenos Aires, next to Ruben Darío, of that was friend, the “Magazine of America”. Its stay in this one city allowed him to cultivate in addition, the friendship of Leopoldo Lugones. The Country was editor of the newspaper, and collaborated with publications of the time.

Tucumán

Between 1901 and 1921 it lived in Tucumán, where he was Professor in the National School of Tucumán where it solicited the courses of Psychology and Perceptive Literature, Logical and History of Spanish Literature, was also educational, from 1905, of the Perpendicular one and the National University of Tucumán of which he was Co-founder and one the first educational ones, becoming an important personage of the tucumana cultural life, its bearing, and their dowries of speaker and declamador, made a personage very singular. Performance the work of historian after organizing the tucumano historical archive and publishing the “History Of the Republic of Tucumán”. Between 1904 and 1907 it directed to the Magazine of Letters and Social Sciences, a unique and vanguardista proposal at his time. He was member of the Academy Argentina de Letras and the Company Vine shoot. In 1916 the Argentine citizenship identification document was granted to him.

Public service

The 12 of May of 1921 were named Minister of Public Instruction Agriculture and War in Bolivia. From then it carried out in the name of Bolivia the charges: Delegate to the League of Nations; Minister of External relations, charge that supposed a controversy to him with Franz Tamayo; Ambassador in Chile where he maintained an important controversy with the Chancellor of this country; Ambassador in Member States, country in which underwent the death of its wife; Ambassador in Mexico, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador in Brazil, this last charge supposed a discord with then president Hernando Siles, which brought about its resignation and its return to Buenos Aires.

Last Years

After his resignation it lived poorly with the retirement that it obtained from his chairs in Tucumán. The 24 of April of 1933, in Buenos Aires, died in arms of their Yolanda daughter.

The 8 of November of 1933, their tails, next to those of their father were transferred to Potosí, at where they arrived three days later and they were deposited in the Cathedral of the city.

Legacy

Its poetry usually is described as excessively meditated preciosista and, but its contribution like precursor of the Modernismo is recognized to him, along with Rubén Darío, its work Laws of the Castilian Versificación has been worth him the title of Theoretician of the Modernismo. He was in addition socialist, atheistic and citizen of the world considered itself.

Poetic work

  • Barbarian Castalia (1899)
  • Laws of the Castilian versificación (1907)
  • The correct and expressive reading: pronunciación, syllabification, accentuation, intonation and diffractions of the voice, verse pauses, breathing, reading, advice to the teachers (1910,2da ed.)
  • History of the Republic of Tucumán (1911)
  • The dreams are life (1917)
  • The conquerors. Historical drama in three acts and verse (1918)
  • Complete poetries, pról.y compilation Eduardo Joubín Colombres (Buenos Aires, Clarity, 1944)
  • Complete poetries, pról. Fernando Díez de Medina (La Paz, Ministry of Education and Beautiful Arts, 1957)
  • Poems/Laws of the Castilian vesificación, pról. and notes Loyal Antonio Castro (Mexico, Aguilar, 1974)

Historiográfica work

  • Tucumán in 1810 (1907)
  • History of the Republic of Tucumán (1911)
  • The Tucumán of s XVI: under the government of Juan Ramirez de Velasco (1914)
  • The colonial Tucumán (1915)
  • History of the discovery of Tucumán (1916)

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Notes

  1. National Library of Teachers
Categories: Writers of the Modernismo | Writers of Bolivia | Poets of Bolivia
 
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