Tarsicio Herrera Zapién

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Herrera and the second or maternal family name is Zapién.

Tarsicio Herrera Zapién (born 1935) is a Mexican writer, researcher and academic, specializing in the culture and classical literature. He studies the works of Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz, as well as music composition and recovery of classical musicological works.

Biography

Tarsicio Herrera Zapién was born 19 July 1935 in Churintzio, Michoacán, Mexico.[1] Herrera earned a degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1955.[2]

He completed his Bachelor's (1967), Master's (1968) and Doctorate (1970) degrees in classical literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).[2] For over 45 years he has been a professor in his alma mater[1] being the dean in Classics.[2] He has taught Latin, literature and classical tradition in Faculty of Arts.[3] He also holds a diploma in musical composition.

He was vice president of the Mexican Academy of Doctors in Social and Human Sciences from 1996-2000[3] and president in 2000.[4] He has been Senior researcher at the Institute of Philological Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico[3] since 1973 and also is an academician of the Mexican Academy of Language.[2] He was elected full member of the Mexican Academy of Language on May 12, 1983, he took up the chair IV on 9 February 1984. He has served as the Academy of Language's 14th secretary from 1999 to 2000, and the 9th statuary censor since 2008.[1]

He has written articles and collaborated with magazines and newspapers, including the Diario Reforma; Diario YA de Madrid; El Heraldo Cultural; Memorias de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua: Tomos XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXIX, and XXXI; Nova Tellus del CEC; Revista de Literatura Mexicana IIFL; Revista Plural; Revista de la Universidad Central de Venezuela; and Revista de la Universidad Nacional de México. His body of work is diverse. He has written essays on classicism, essays on Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz, translations of classics from Latin to Spanish, Spanish translations of works into Latin, as well as musicological works.[4] Herrera has published over 30 books[3] and has done work to recover such works as the lyrical Castilian albums of patriotic and sacred songs by Jesús Guízar Villanueva, as well as studying the works of Francisco José Cabrera. Herrera has composed music[4] and is also a pianist and organist.[3]

Awards and honors

Selected works

Essays

Translations

Musicological works

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "ACADÉMICO De número: Tarsicio Herrera Zapién". Academia Mexicana de a Lengua (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Academia Mexicana de a Lengua. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Tarcisio Herrera Zapién". Enciclopedia de la Literatura en Mexico (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Enciclopedia de la Literatura en Mexico. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Humanistas Mexicanos". Humanistas. Mexico City, Mexico: Nuestros Humanistas. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 "El poeta Jesús Guízar se suma a los patriotas que merecen honores en este bicentenario: Tarsicio Herrera Zapién". Literatura Bellas Artes (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
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