Juan de Iriarte
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Juan de Iriarte (1701 in Puerto de la Orotava, now Puerto de la Cruz, Canary Islands - 1771 in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish writer, hellenist and latinist.
[edit] Biography
He was educated in Paris in 1713 with one of his students being Voltaire. He moved to London and completed a formation for his native island. He later moved to Madrid where he was officially nominated at Biblioteca Real. He edited Regia Matritensis Bibliotheca in 1729, his first catalog published at the Biblioteca Real. The Biblioteca Mayor of the insitutuion, Juan de Ferras. He wrote Gramática latina (Latin Grammar), he was created a convenient official nominator for the first Secretary of State. He also wrote Diario de los Literatos (1737) and in 1741, he was elected member of the Real Academia Española of Languages, he entered at the Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Iriarte also wrote Sobre la imperfección de los diccionarios. and Paleografía griega (Greek Paleography) as well as Bibliotheca graeca (Greek Library) in which he described Greek manuscripts. His other works include Tauromaquia matritensis, sive taurorum ludi, Lista de los Principales Manuscritos de la Librería de los Marqueses de Villena and Sacada de la Hijuela Authentica de los bienes que quedaron por muerte del Marqués Don Andrés Pacheco, en 9 de Octubre de 1748. Por la tarde por mí mismo, it was conserved at the Biblioteca de la Fundación Juan March.
[edit] Works
- Obras sueltas de don Juan de Iriarte, Madrid, 1774, dos vols.
- Regia Matritensis Bibliotheca (1729)
- Sobre la imperfección de los diccionarios, discurso de ingreso en la Real Academia Española de la Lengua, 1747.
- Colección de refranes castellanos traducidos en metros latinos, 1749.
- Sobre los verbos reflexivos y recíprocos, 1756.
- Advertencias sobre la sintaxis castellana, 1755.
- Gramática latina, 1764.
- Paleografía griega, 1760.
- Bibliotheca graeca
- Tauromaquia matritensis, sive taurorum ludi, Lista de los Principales Manuscritos de la Librería de los Marqueses de Villena. 1725.
- ''Lista de los Principales Manuscritos de la Librería de los Marqueses de Villena. Sacada de la Hijuela Authentica de los bienes que quedaron por muerte del Marqués Don Andrés Pacheco, en 9 de Octubre de 1748. Por la tarde por mí mismo.
