biography
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Hernández de Soto, Ramón Sergio
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pronunciation:
[airnandeth thay <
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| male
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| lived:
| (1845–1921)
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| biography:
| Folklorist, born in Zafra, Badajoz, SW Spain. He is considered to be one of the most enigmatic of his generation of folklorists from Extremadura. His interest in the traditions and customs of Extremadura was aroused early in life, and his fortuitous meeting with A Machado y Alvarez and/or with L Romero y Espinosa led to the publication of his story El papagayo in La Enciclopedia. Due to Espinosa's recommendation and the support of intellectuals such as V Barrantes (chronicler of Extremadura), Juan de Uña (director of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza), and Giusseppe Pitré, (professor in the University of Palermo), Hernández was made an honorary member of El Folk-Lore Frexnense (1882). He dedicated his books La Cruz de Mayo (1883) and Juegos Infantiles (1884) to Espinosa. He dedicated the first volume of Cuentos Populares Extremeños (1885) to Machado, but the publication of the remaining four was aborted. Hernández did not only copy out romances, proverbs, songs, games, and other features of popular life in Extremadura belonging to a more or less remote past but, in his studies, he also fully recorded the life of the people at the time. |
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