Julio Jiménez Rueda

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Julio Jiménez Rueda
Born	(1896-04-10)April 10, 1896 Mexico City
Died	April 10, 1960(1960-04-10) (aged 64) Mexico City
Occupation	lawyer, writer, playwright and diplomat
Nationality	Mexican
Alma mater	Universidad Nacional de México

Julio Jiménez Rueda (b. Mexico City, April 10, 1896 – d. Mexico City, June 25, 1960) was a Mexican lawyer, writer, playwright and diplomat.

Biography

Jiménez Rueda studied at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, and graduated in law at the Universidad Nacional de México (later UNAM) in 1919. Later on, he was appointed as the director of the Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral of UNAM. He completed a doctoral degree of philosophy and literature in 1935. As a diplomat, he served in Montevideo in 1920, and afterwards in Buenos Aires until 1922. Back in Mexico he was the director of the General Archive of the Nation, and later president of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores. In 1923 he promoted the creation of the Municipal Theater, fostered the creation of the Unión de Autores Dramáticos (Dramatic Writers' Union), and participated in the Teatro Ulises movement. He became a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua on August 7, 1935, and of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia in 1954.^[1] He directed the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the UNAM, where he taught Spanish literature for many years.^[2] He also was co-founder of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI).^[3]

Works

Cuentos y diálogos, 1918
Sor Adoración del Divino Verbo, 1923
Lo que ella no pudo prever, 1923
Moisn. Historia de judaizantes e inquisidores, 1924
La silueta de humo, 1928
Resúmenes de literatura mexicana (essay), 1928
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (essay), 1934
La desventura del Conde Kadski, 1935
Vidas reales que parecen imaginarias
Don Pedro Moya de Contreras, primer inquisidor de México (essay), 1944
Herejías y supersticiones de la Nueva España (essay),1946
Novelas coloniales, 1947
El humanismo, el barroco y la contrarreforma en el México virreinal, 1951
El doctor Francisco Castillo Nájera, 1954
Historia de la cultura en México, el mundo prehispánico, 1957
Literatura mexicana del siglo XIX

External links

Julio Jiménez Rueda in the Ibero-American Institute (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) catalogue, Berlin

References

↑ Julio Jiménez Rueda (Spanish), Biografías y Vidas.
↑ José Luis Martínez: Julio Jiménez Rueda 1896–1960 (Spanish), UNAM.
↑ Fue Julio Jiménez Rueda un comprometido con la literatura clásic (Spanish), April 9, 2007.

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Persondata
Name	Jimrnez Rueda, Julio
Alternative names
Short description	Mecican diplomat
Date of birth	April 10, 1896
Place of birth	Mexico City
Date of death	April 10, 1960
Place of death	Mexico City

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