AGUSTIN See also:

• DURAN
• AGUSTIN DURAN (1789-1862)

DURAN (1789-1862)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1789 at See also:

• MADRID

Madrid, where his See also:

• FATHER

father was See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court physician . He was sent to the See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary at Vergara, whence he returned learned in the traditions of Spanish See also:

• ROMANCE

romance . In 1817 he began the study of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy and See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law at the university of See also:

• SEVILLE
• SEVILLE (Span. Sevilla, Lat. Ispalis or Hispalis, Moorish Ishbiliya)

Seville, and in due course was admitted to the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar at See also:

• VALLADOLID

Valladolid . From 1821 to 1823 he held a See also:

• POST

post in the See also:

• EDUCATION

education See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department at Madrid, but in the latter See also:

• YEAR

year he was suspended on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his See also:

• POLITICAL

political opinions . In 1834 he became secretary of the See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board for the censorship of the See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press, and shortly afterwards obtained a post in the See also:

• NATIONAL

national library at Madrid . The revolution of 184o led to his dismissal; but he was reinstated in 1843, and in 1854 was appointed See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief librarian . Next year, however, he retired to devote himself to his See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• WORK

work . In 1828, shortly after his first See also:

• DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge from See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, he published anonymously his Discurso sobre el injlujo que ha tenido la critica moderna en la decadencia del teatro antiguo; this See also:

• TREATISE

treatise greatly influenced the younger dramatists of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . He next endeavoured to See also:

• INTEREST

interest his See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-countrymen in their See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient, neglected See also:

• BALLADS

ballads, and in the forgotten dramas of the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Five volumes of a Romancero See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general appeared from 1828 to 1832 (republished, with considerable additions, in 2 vols . 1849-1851), and Talia espanola (1834), a reprint of old Spanish comedies . See also:

• DURAN
• DURAN, AGUSTIN (1789-1862)

Duran's Romancero general is the fullest collection of the See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind and is therefore unlikely to be superseded, though the texts are inferior to those edited by Menendez y Pelayo .