Ángel Rosenblat (9 December 1902,

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, Poland - 11 September 1984, Caracas) was a Poland-born Venezuelan philologist, essayist and hispanist of

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descent.

Life

He and his family moved to Argentina when he was six and he spent his whole education there, including at the

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, where his classmates included Amado Alonso, and in its Institute of Philology, where his teachers included

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Works

*''Lengua y cultura de Hispanoamérica: Tendencias actuales'', 1933. *''Población indígena y el mestizaje en América'', Buenos Aires, 1954, 2 vols. *''Buenas y malas palabras'', 1960. *''Origen e historia del "Che" Argentino, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 1962 *''El castellano de España y el castellano de América'', 1963. *''El nombre de la Argentina'', 1964 (Eudeba,

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) *''El futuro de nuestra lengua'', 1967 *''Actual nivelación léxica en el mundo hispánico'', 1975. *''La primera visión de América y otros estudios'' (Caracas: Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educación, 1969) *''Nuestra lengua en ambos mundos'' (Biblioteca General Salvat. 1971) *''La educación en Venezuela'' (Caracas: Monte Ávila Ed. 1986, publicada originalmente en 1964) *''La lengua del "Quijote"'', 1971. *''El criterio de corrección lingüística: Unidad o pluralidad de normas en el castellano de España y América'', 1967. *''Los conquistadores y su lengua'', 1977. *''Contactos interlinguísticos en el mundo hispánico: el español y las lenguas indígenas'' (Universidad de Nimega, Países Bajos, 1967) *''La población de América en 1492. Viejos y nuevos cálculos'', México, 1967. *

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, modernised version, Buenos Aires, 1973.

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Biography of Ángel Rosenblat
1902 births 1984 deaths Argentine Jews Polish expatriates in Argentina Venezuelan philologists Venezuelan essayists Male essayists Venezuelan male writers Venezuelan people of Polish-Jewish descent Venezuelan Jews Venezuelan Hispanists People from Węgrów County 20th-century essayists 20th-century philologists Polish emigrants to Venezuela {{Venezuela-writer-stub