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词条 Juan León Mera
释义

  1. Biography

      Writing    Political career  

  2. Works

  3. References

  4. Works based on his novels

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}}Juan León Mera Martínez (June 28, 1832 – December 13, 1894) was an Ecuadorian essayist, novelist, politician and painter. His best-known works are the Ecuadorian National Hymn and the novel Cumandá (1879). Additionally, in his political career, he was a functionary of president Gabriel García Moreno.[1]

Biography

He was born on Ambato on June 28, 1832 and died in the same city on December 13, 1894. His father, Pedro Antonio Mera Gómez was a businessman while his mother Josefa Martínez Vásconez, raised her only son alone due to the fact that he abandoned her during her pregnancy.[2]

His infancy was humble while during his first years of life he lived at the “Los Molinos” country property, located in Ambato. In order to support the family his maternal grandmother rented the property to her brother Pablo Vásconez, who was a political activist who fought against the politics of Juan José Flores. León Mera received his education at home, which in large part was carried out by great-uncle as well as his uncle Nicolás Martínez who was a doctor.[2]

At the age of twenty he traveled to Quito to study painting with the noted pictural artist Antonio Salas, where he learned how to paint oil and watercolor.[2] At the age of 33, he and Antonio Neumane created the Ecuadorian National Hymn, "salve, Oh patria".

Juan Leon Mera's son José Trajano Mera (1862 – 1919) became a poet, playwright and diplomat,

Writing

In the year 1854, he published his first verses of poetry in the newspaper La Democracia, with the help of writer Miguel Riofrío.[2]

He founded the Ecuadorian Academy of language in 1874 and was a member of the Real Academia Española.[1]

He is considered one of the precursors of Ecuadorian literature for his famous national novel Cumandá which shows the complicated racial and social intricacies of Ecuador following independence. It was published in Quito in the year 1879 and later in Madrid in 1891. This novel was later utilized by Ecuadorian dramaturgists of the 20th century Luis H. Salgado (1903–1977), Pedro Pablo Traversari Salazar (1874–1956) and Sixto María Durán Cárdenas (1875–1947) to each write an opera.

Political career

In addition to being a writer and painter he was a political conservative and follower of Gabriel García Moreno.[1] He was the governor of Cotopaxi, Secretary of the Council of State, Senator, President of the Cámara del Senado and National Congress.

His former residence, the museum "La quinta de Juan León Mera", in the city of Ambato, exhibits his possessions.[3]

Works

Year of Publication Literary work
1857Fantasías
1857Afectos íntimos
1858Melodías indígenas
1858Poesías
1861La virgen del sol
1865Himno Nacional del Ecuador
1868Ojeada histórico-crítica sobre la poesía ecuatoriana
1872Los novios de una aldea ecuatoriana
1875Mazorra
1879Cumandá o un drama entre salvajes
1883Los últimos momentos de Bolívar
1884La dictadura y la restauración de la República del Ecuador
1887Lira ecuatoriana
1889Entre dos tías y un tío
1890Porqué soy cristiano
1892Antología ecuatoriana: cantares del pueblo
1903Tijeretazos y plumadas
1904García Moreno
1909Novelitas ecuatorianas

References

1. ^{{cite news| first= | last= | title= Juan León Mera | date= | publisher= | url = http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=3015 | journal=Biografía| pages= | accessdate= 4 April 2008 | language= }}
2. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.diccionariobiograficoecuador.com/tomos/tomo3/m6.htm |title = Juan León Mera Martínez|accessdate = 1 May 2008|last = Pérez |first = Rodolfo|authorlink = |work = Diccionario biográfico Ecuador |pages = |language = Spanish |doi = }}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://archivo.eluniverso.com/2007/07/16/0001/12/FB602400670A4AD79FFF3CBDF71D7D11.aspx |title=Trabajos en quinta de Mera |accessdate=5 May 2009 |author= |last=Pinto |first=Wilson |date=16 July 2007 |work=El Universo |pages= |language=Spanish |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090712005212/http://archivo.eluniverso.com/2007/07/16/0001/12/FB602400670A4AD79FFF3CBDF71D7D11.aspx |archivedate=12 July 2009 |df= }}

Works based on his novels

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Three operas have been based on Juan León Mera's novel Cumandá:

* Cumandá, una ópera de Luis H. Salgado

* Cumandá, una ópera de Sixto María Durán Cárdenas

* Cumandá o la virgen de las selvas una ópera de Pedro Pablo Traversari Salazar

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9 : 1832 births|1894 deaths|People from Ambato, Ecuador|Ecuadorian painters|Ecuadorian politicians|Ecuadorian male writers|Members of the Royal Spanish Academy|National anthem writers|19th-century Ecuadorian painters

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