José Manuel Briceño Guerrero Explained

Region:Western philosophy
Era:20th-century philosophy
Birth Name:José Manuel Briceño Guerrero
Birth Date:6 March 1929
Birth Place:Palmarito, Apure, Venezuela
Death Place:Mérida, Venezuela
Other Names:Jonuel Brigue
Alma Mater:University of Vienna
Spouse:Jacqueline Clarac
Website:https://www.jonuel-brigue.org/

José Manuel Briceño Guerrero (Palmarito, Apure, Venezuela, 6 March 1929 - Mérida, 31 October 2014)[1] was a Venezuelan writer, philologist and philosopher. A large part of his work was published under the pen-name Jonuel Brigue.

After doctoring in Vienna in 1961[2] with a thesis entitled “The Socio-Psychological Foundations of Latin American Spanish,” Briceño Guerrero worked for decades as Professor of Philosophy and Classical languages at the Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida. In 1981 he was awarded the Venezuelan Premio Nacional de Ensayo, and in 1996 the Premio Nacional de Cultura (Literatura).[3] He is considered one of the most influential and original Latin-American thinkers,[4] and some of his works have been translated into French and German, some as part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.[5]

Works

Other articles and minor works are referenced in the Spanish Wikipedia article.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: En la muerte de José Manuel Briceño Guerrero . 2017-10-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190306045359/http://www.noticierodigital.com/2014/11/en-la-muerte-de-jose-manuel-briceno-guerrero/ . 2019-03-06 . dead .
  2. Original PhD thesis title: Die völkerpsychologischen Grundlagen des lateinamerikanischen Spanisch. This became later the book América Latina en el Mundo (1966).
  3. http://www.saber.ula.ve/bitstream/123456789/42124/1/articulo2.pdf “José Manuel Briceño Guerrero, Universitario Integral”, a biographic article by Prof. M.A. Rodríguez Lorenzo
  4. http://www.actu-philosophia.com/jose-manuel-briceno-guerrero-philosophe-partie-1/ French article by François Delprat
  5. http://www.unesco.org/culture/lit/rep/index.php?lng=en_GB&pagesize=0&change=&save=&show=&page=1&start=1&newsize=null&criteres=YToxOntzOjk6Indvcmtfem9uZSI7YToxOntpOjA7czozOiIzMzAiO319 Venezuelan works translated and published with UNESCO's support since 1948.