Julio Jiménez Rueda


Julio Jiménez Rueda was a Mexican lawyer, writer, playwright and diplomat.

Biography

Jiménez Rueda studied at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, and graduated in law at the Universidad Nacional de México in 1919. Later on, he was appointed as the director of the Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral of UNAM. He completed a doctoral degree of philosophy and literature in 1935. As a diplomat, he served in Montevideo in 1920, and afterwards in Buenos Aires until 1922. Back in Mexico he was the director of the General Archive of the Nation, and later president of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores. In 1923 he promoted the creation of the Municipal Theater, fostered the creation of the Unión de Autores Dramáticos, and participated in the Teatro Ulises movement. He became a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua on August 7, 1935, and of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia in 1954. He directed the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the UNAM, where he taught Spanish literature for many years. He also was co-founder of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.

Works

Cuentos y diálogos, 1918Sor Adoración del Divino Verbo, 1923Lo que ella no pudo prever, 1923Moisn. Historia de judaizantes e inquisidores, 1924La silueta de humo, 1928Resúmenes de literatura mexicana, 1928Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, 1934La desventura del Conde Kadski, 1935Vidas reales que parecen imaginariasDon Pedro Moya de Contreras, primer inquisidor de México, 1944Herejías y supersticiones de la Nueva España,1946Novelas coloniales, 1947El humanismo, el barroco y la contrarreforma en el México virreinal, 1951El doctor Francisco Castillo Nájera, 1954Historia de la cultura en México, el mundo prehispánico, 1957
  • ''Literatura mexicana del siglo XIX''