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Beardsley, Wilfred Attwood (1889-1959)
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Wilfred Attwood Beardsley fue un estadounidense docente de lenguas modernas que nació el 4 de abril de 1889 en Woodbury (Connecticut, EE. UU.) y falleció el 30 de enero de 1959 en Baltimore (Maryland, EE. UU.). Beardsley estudió en la Yale University y se graduó en torno a 1911. Presumiblemente, alrededor del año de 1914, Beardsley fue docente de francés en la Sheffield Scientific School y, en 1921, le fue otorgado el grado de doctor por la Columbia University. Gracias a sus publicaciones podemos saber que, a partir de 1932, debió formar parte del claustro docente del Goucher College, en Baltimore, como profesor de lenguas románicas, y allí permaneció impartiendo docencia hasta su fallecimiento a la edad de 69 años en 1959.
La primera publicación de Wilfred Attwood Beardsley fue su tesis doctoral Infinitive constructions in old Spanish, publicada en 1921. No conservamos apenas más obras que su tesis, reeditada y publicada hasta nuestros días. Más allá de esta obra, Beardsley editó los Ensayos y sentencias de Unamuno (1932), en una publicación en la que dio cuenta de la vida y la obra del autor en el prólogo, completado con una biografía, y presentó los ensayos y las notas a continuación, terminando con un vocabulario final. Asimismo, Beardsley también publicó un artículo sobre la enseñanza de lenguas a los soldados en Florencia, Teaching Languages in the Army University in Florence (Hispania, vol. 30, n.º 1, febrero de 1947, págs. 27-31), editado a partir de la ponencia que presentó en el XVIII Congreso de la American Asociation of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, celebrado en Washington, D. C., en diciembre de 1946.
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- Infinitive constructions in old Spanish, Columbia University Press, Nueva York, 1921.
- Ensayos y sentencias de Unamuno; edited with introduction, notes, and vocabulary by Wilfred A. Beardsley, The Macmillan company, Nueva York 1932.
Bibliografía
- Dana, James Dwight, Robert Alexander Gibney y Harry Stuart Irons, History of the Class of 1911, Yale College, vol. 1, Yale University, Connecticut, 1911, pág. 56.
- García Blanco, Manuel (ed.), Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo. Obras completas, t. III, Ensayo I, Afrodisio Aguado, s. a., Madrid, 1958, pág. 47.
- «Necrology», en Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, vol. 74, n.º 4-5, pág. 133.
- Swain, James O., «Wilfred Attwood Beardsley (1889-1959)», Hispania, 42-4, diciembre de 1959, págs. 524-526.
- The Yale Banner and Pot Pourri, vol. 2, Yale University, Connecticut, 1910, págs. 66 y 435.
- Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates, 1701-1915, Yale University, Connecticut, 1916, pág. 259.
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