Manuel Murguía - biography, career, poetry
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Manuel Murguia was a Galician journalist and historian who created the Real Academia Galega. He was one of the main figures in Galician Rexurdimento movement. He is also remembered as Rosalía de Castro’s husband, publisher and main supporter.
Life
Manuel Murguia was born on May 17, 1833 in Arteixo, a place in A Coruña, Galicia (Spain). His father was a chemist.
Being at A Coruña, a child Manuel Murguia witnessed the liberal insurrection of locals against the central power on April 23, 1846. This happening ended with the execution of the Mártires de Carral (The Martirs of Carral). It all caused an important ideologocial impact on Murguia, who wrote about that later on in his article La Voz de Galicia (The Voice of Galicia).
Manuel Murguia studied philosophy, and also pharmacy as it was his father’s wish, all of this at Santiago de Compostela However, Murguía had a great interest on literature and history, so he finally gave up his studies to work as a writer and researcher. He used to go to Liceo de la Juventud, the cultural center on Santiago, meeting other students and intellectual people, including Eduardo Pondal, Aurelio Aguirre and Rosalía de Castro.
On June 1, 1854, Murguia published his first work in Galician language, Nena das Soidades (Girl of Loneliness). He would then begin working as a freelance writer in journals and magazines, getting a measure of success. With it, up-and-coming Murguía would publish other works like Mi madre Antonia (My mother, Antonia), Los Lirios Blancos (The White Irises) and El Ángel de la Muerte (Angel of Death). He would then become one of the literary promises of his time.
Murguia would go to Madrid, where he became friends with authors like Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and where he would get intimate with Rosalía de Castro. They would begin a romatic relationship which ended in marriage on October 10, 1858, on Madrid. From the very beginning, Murguía encourage de Castro’s literary interests and the publishment of her works. Particularly, de Castro’s work Cantares Gallegos will be considered the beginning of the Rexurdimento (Galician literature renaissance).
After getting a great success, Murguia left his creative job and began a full-time work on historical research and its popularization. He also tried to extend his own political ideas. This is considered a milestone on the Rexurdimento.
Once his first daughter was born, Murguia published La Primera Luz (The First Light), a book of school texts about history and geography. The Spanish Ministry of Promotion encouraged to use of this book to teach in Galicia schools.
Murguia published important works, including Diccionario de escritores gallegos (Dictionary of Galician writers) on 1862. He then moved to Lugo on 1865, and then he published Historia de Galicia (History of Galicia).
He was named Chief of the Arquivo Xeral de Galicia (General Archives of Galicia) on 1870, and fifteen years later he became Cronista Xeral do Reino (Feature Writer of the Kingdom), all the while writing and publishing different works.
On 1890, Murguia became the co-editor of La Patria Gallega (Galicia Native Country), a journal which included the first keys of the Galician nationalism.
When he was 72-years-old, Murguía decided to create an Academy of the Galician Language. He shared his idea with other writers who met on Coruñan book store A Cova Céltica. This Galician Academy became a reality on August 25, 1906. Murguía also wanted to create a dictionary of Galician language, as he felt Galician vocabulary was scarce; he even suggested that his work in Galician could not be greater because of the absence of this dictionary.
Murguia died on February 2, 1923 on A Coruña.
One hundred years after he published the book Cantares Gallegos, on 1963, the date was commemorated with the Día das Letras Galegas (Galician Literature Day). Since then, May 17 would be dedicated to a different writer in Galician language every year. It was dedicated to Rosalía de Castro on its first installment on 1963. Afterwards, Murguía’s work was recognized when the Día das Letras Galegas was dedicated to him on 2000.
Poetry
"Nena d’as soledades" (poem), La Oliva, 27-2-1856.
"Madrigal" (poem), La Oliva, 8-3-1856.
"La flor y el aire" (poem), La Oliva, 19-3-1856.
"A una paloma" (poem), La Oliva, 3-5-1856.
"A las ruínas del Castillo de Altamira" (poem), La Oliva, 31-5-1856.
"En un Álbum", (poem), La Oliva, 31-5-1856.
"Al partir" (poem), Galicia (A Coruña), 1862, páx. 39.
Three poems ("Madrigal", "Nena d’as soledades" and "Gloria") in anthology El Álbum de la Caridad, A Coruña, 1862.
"Sueños dorados" (poem), en García Acuña (177) e antes no Álbum de El Miño.
"Ildara de Courel", (poem), en García Acuña (177-178).
"Soneto de Pardo de Cela", (poem), en García Acuña (179).
"Los versos fueron mi ilusión primera" (1903 poem), en Naya (1950: 104).
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Murgu%C3%ADa"
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