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González Prada, Manuel, 1844-1918


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  • Fuller Name

    • José Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Álvarez de Ulloa

  • Variants

    • Prada, Manuel González, 1844-1918
    • González de Prada y Ulloa, Manuel, 1844-1918
    • De Prada y Ulloa, Manuel, 1844-1918
    • Prada y Ulloa, Manuel González de, 1844-1918
    • Y Ulloa, Manuel González de, 1844-1918
    • Ulloa, Manuel González de Prada y, 1844-1918
    • González Prada y Ulloa, Manuel, 1844-1918
    • González de Prada y Ulloa, José́́ Manuel de los Reyes, 1844-1918
    • De Prada y Ulloa, José́́ Manuel de los Reyes, 1844-1918
    • Y Ulloa, José́́ Manuel de los Reyes Prado, 1844-1918
    • Ulloa, José́́ Manuel de los Reyes Prado y, 1844-1918
    • González de Prada, Manuel, 1844-1918
    • De Prada, Manuel González, 1844-1918
    • Gonzales Prada, Manuel, 1844-1918

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    • Birth Date

        1844-01-05

    • Death Date

        1918-07-22

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Círculo Literario (Lima, Peru)

    • Birth Place

        Lima (Peru)

    • Associated Locale

        Lima (Peru)

    • Associated Locale

        Valparaíso (Chile)

    • Associated Locale

        Paris (France)

    • Associated Language

        Spanish

    • Field of Activity

      War of the Pacific, 1879-1884


    • Occupation

      Critic

      Politician

      Poet

      National library director

      Anarchist

      Soldier

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      • Sources

        • found: Nota informativa, 1912.
        • found: Obras, 1985:v. 1, pt. 1, t.p. (Manuel González Prada) p. 9 (Manuel González Prada y Ulloa; some confusion has existed over year of birth because he gave his age as 39 when he married in 1887; however, baptismal record in Parroquia de San Marcelo proves he was b. 1-5-1844)
        • found: Romero de Valle, E. Diccionario manual de literatura peruana y materias afines, 1966(González Prada, Manuel, 1848-1918)
        • found: Mi Manuel, 1947:title page (Manuel; Adriana de González Prada) page 7, etc. (Adriana de Verneuil; born near Vilnoy, France; family moved to Lima in 1875; married Manuel González Prada on September 11, 1887; Manuel's parents were Francisco González de Prada and Josefa Ulloa de González de Prada; their two oldest children died in infancy; their third son Julio Alfredo was born on October 16; Manuel González Prada died July 22, 1918); - https://repositoriodigital.bnp.gob.pe/bnp/recursos/2/memoria-peru/g-prada/mi-manuel/
        • found: Email from Thomas Ward (scholar on Manuel González Prada and professor affiliated with Loyola University Maryland), May 3, 2023:(his full name is José Manuel González de Prada y Álvarez de Ulloa, but he never published under that name; sometimes he published as Manuel González Prada (getting rid of the aristocratic “de”), other times he published as Manuel G. Prada, and other times under a pseudonym; one hundred years after his death, people generally call him Manuel González Prada; his father was also losing the partitive “de” in official announcements in Peruvian newspapers when Manuel González Prada was a young man; [email protected])
        • found: Thomas Ward's Manuel González Prada website, May 3, 2023:(Manuel González Prada; born 1844; died July 22, 1918; born in an aristocratic family from Lima; member of the Ateneo de Lima; founder of the Círculo Literario; one of the founders of the Unión Nacional party; spent time in Europe (1891-1898) where he was influenced by the positivism of Auguste Comte; anarchist who critized conservatism and the elites in Peruvian society; poet; director of the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú) - https://loyolanotredamelib.org/manuelgonzalezprada/sample-page/
        • found: Perú TV YouTube channel, May 3, 2023:documentary video which is an episode of their program Sucedió́ en el Perú́́ posted February 20, 2014 (Manuel González Prada; José Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Álvarez de Ulloa; born January 5, 1844 in Lima; died July 22, 1918; his family moved to Valparaíso, Chile in 1855 and he attended a British school there; his family moved back to Peru in 1857; his father Francisco González de Prada became mayor of Lima for two years; anarchist; poet; fought in the War of the Pacific; one of the founders of the Unión Nacional party; moved to Paris in 1891 where his son Alfredo González Prada was born; director of the Biblioteca Nacional (1912-1914 (resigned); reinstated in 1916); author of Nota informativa (1912); has interviews with several historians; much of the video is filmed in the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú́́) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewZD2Vlo75I - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF-xMnGjbDM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S821OI2RpiQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt6vF_jZj78
        • found: Letras (journal of the Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru)), vol. 12, núm. 33, primer cuatrimestre 1946:(Alfredo González-Prada; born October 16, 1891 in Paris; died June 27, 1943 in New York City; father was Manuel González Prada and mother was Adriana de Vernuil y Conchas (born in Villeroy near Paris and moved to Peru when she was 10 years old in 1875; was living in New York City at the time that the article was written) and they married on September 11, 1887; they moved back to Peru in 1898 when he was seven years old; licenciatura in literature from the Facultad de Historia, Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (1907-1910); Ph.D. in law, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (1914); diplomat at the embassy in Washington, D.C. (1920-1929); married Elizabeth Anne Howe González Prada in August 16, 1922 in New York City (born October 2, 1895 in Orange, New Jersey; died April 22, 1943; she donated the documenation of the González Prada family to the Columbia University library shortly after his death); their only child was Felipe González Prada who died in 1932; president of the Delegación Peruana to the League of Nations; wrote under the pseudonym Ascanio; poet; his father Manuel's books include Propaganda y ataque; Trozos de vida; Grafitos; El tonel de Diógenes; and Baladas; Alfredo's works include Un crimen perfecto and El derecho y el animal; author of the article is his personal friend Luis Alberto Sá́́nchez and is the prologue of the book Redes para captar la nube which is a compilation of the all of the works of Alfredo González Prada) - http://revista.letras.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/le/article/view/1177/1068
        • found: Columbia University Library website, May 3, 2023:(Gonzalez-Prada family papers, 1750-1850; one of the headings is: González de Prada, Manuel, 1844-1918; entire collection is available on microfilm (#97-2023); source of acquisition--Gonzales-Prada, Mrs. Alfredo; donated as a gift in 1943) - https://clio.columbia.edu/archives/4078820
        • found: Fuentes Histó́́ricas del Perú́́ website, May, 3, 2023:(Adriana de Verneuil de González Prada; Adriana Adelaida Chalumeau de Verneuil; born October 25, 1865 in France; her family left France and moved to the United States and later to Peru in 1875 because of the Franco Prussian War; married Manuel González Prada in 1887; author of Mi Manuel (1947); died 1948 at the age of 83; source is the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú́́) - https://fuenteshistoricasdelperu.com/2022/01/23/adriana-de-verneuil-de-gonzalez-prada-1864-1948/

      • LC Classification

        • PQ8497.G6

      • Editorial Notes

        • [Husband of: González Prada, Adriana de, 1865-1948 (no2020100026)]
        • [Father of: González Prada, Alfredo, 1891-1943 (n 88630367)]

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      • Change Notes

        • 1980-07-10: new
        • 2023-05-03: revised

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