Pedro Henríquez Ureña

Pedro Henríquez Ureña was born on 29 June 1884 in Santo Domingo, the son of the physician and politician Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal and the poet Salomé Ureña. In Mexico, from 1906 to 1913, he fought positivism; he was then a journalist in Washington and New York and a professor at the University of Minnesota, then taught in Argentina, at La Plata, and worked at the Institute of Philology in Buenos Aires. The first Spanish speaker invited to give Harvard's Norton Lectures, he died in Buenos Aires on 11 May 1946.

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• EssaySix Essays in Search of Our ExpressionSeis ensayos en busca de nuestra expresiónPedro Henríquez Ureña · 1928Literature