Martín Sarmiento - Wikipedia Martín Sarmiento From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Martín Sarmiento Martín Sarmiento or Martiño Sarmiento, also Father Sarmiento (born Pedro José García Balboa; March 9, 1695 in Villafranca del Bierzo, El Bierzo – December 7, 1772 in Madrid) was a Spanish scholar, writer and Benedictine monk, illustrious representative of the Enlightenment. He wrote on a wide variety of subjects, including Literature, Medicine, Botany, Ethnography, History, Theology, Linguistics, etc. Contents 1 His life 2 His thought 3 Selected works 4 Bibliography His life[edit] When he was four months old, he moved with his family to Pontevedra, where he spent his childhood and youth. On 3 May 1710, when he was 15, he moved to Madrid to join Benedictine order. He was named presbyter in 1720, Sarmiento lived in Asturias until 1725 like a professor in Cebrio and Oviedo. Later he left his mother in Pontevedra. He was definitively settled in Madrid, stay that is interrupted between February 1726 and May 1727, when he moved to Toledo to catalog the books of the cathedral, and also to visit three times Galicia. When he was 35 years old, he became interested in language again. He thought that people ignored the meaning of the words. He was really interested in languages in general, especially Romanesque languages, but above all, Spanish and Galician. Sarmiento thought that Galician should be taught in schools and priests should know it in order to confess people. In 1745 he returned to Galicia. On this trip he writes the names of the places he is going through in a notebook. He liked to investigate the etymology of the Galician words. He wrote a book in Galician called Colloquium of twenty rustic galleys, thanks to which we know the Galician that was spoken at that time. It contains 1,200 songs sung by a group of Galicians returning from Madrid. They tell us about the death of King Philip V was and he described the celebrations of the accession to the throne of Ferdinand VI. His thought[edit] Sarmiento was not only interested in linguistics, he was interested in other disciplines such as botany and medicine. He had a big knowledge of the names of the plants and their health properties. He was quite concerned about the improvement of the technical and economic level of his country, specially in the Enlightenment ideas. His erudition in many disciplines made him be commissioned the iconographic program that would decorate the Royal Palace of Madrid. Sarmiento designed an ambitious allegory of the history of the Spanish monarchy for the palace, it was so complex that only a part of it was done. He fought, with Feijoo, against superstition and ignorance, proposing to open libraries in the villages. He had one of the most important libraries in Spain at that time. Unlike his teacher Feijoo, Sarmiento understood that it was necessary to know and keep traditions and popular culture. In that he was a great precursor and he contributed to the investigation and recovery of the Galician culture. Sarmiento died at San Martin convent in Madrid, on December, 7th, 1772, aged 77. He posted two books in Feijoo's memory Demostración crítico-apologética del Theatro Crítico Universal in 1732. He wrote other books but they were not published. Selected works[edit] Memorias para la historia de la poesía y poetas españoles, (1741-1745), first edition, Madrid, 1775. Coplas gallegas y Glosario, (1746-...), in the Galician language. Notas al Privilegio de Ordoño y Reflexiones sobre Archiveros Disertación sobre el animal zebra, nacido, criado, conocido y cazado antiguamente en España Bibliography[edit] Pensado Tomé, José Luis, Fray Martín Sarmiento, testigo de su siglo, Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 1972. v t e Authors honoured on Galician Literature Day Rosalía de Castro (1963) Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (1964) Eduardo Pondal (1965) Francisco Añón Paz (1966) Manuel Curros Enríquez (1967) Florentino López Cuevillas (1968) Antonio Noriega Varela (1969) Marcial Valladares Núñez (1970) Gonzalo López Abente (1971) Valentín Lamas Carvajal (1972) Manuel Lago González (1973) Xoán V. Viqueira Cortón (1974) Xoán Manuel Pintos Villar (1975) Ramón Cabanillas (1976) Antón Villar Ponte (1977) Antonio López Ferreiro (1978) Manuel Antonio Pérez (1979) Alfonso X of Castile (1980) Vicente Risco (1981) Luís Amado Carballo (1982) Manuel Leiras Pulpeiro (1983) Armando Cotarelo Valledor (1984) Antón Losada Diéguez (1985) Aquilino Iglesia Alvariño (1986) Francisca Herrera Garrido (1987) Ramón Otero Pedrayo (1988) Celso Emilio Ferreiro (1989) Luís Pimentel (1990) Álvaro Cunqueiro (1991) Fermín Bouza-Brey (1992) Eduardo Blanco Amor (1993) Luís Seoane (1994) Rafael Dieste (1995) Xesús Ferro Couselo (1996) Ánxel Fole (1997) Martín Codax / Johan de Cangas / Mendinho (1998) Roberto Blanco Torres (1999) Manuel Murguía (2000) Eladio Rodríguez (2001) Frei Martín Sarmiento (2002) Antón Avilés de Taramancos (2003) Xaquín Lorenzo (2004) Lorenzo Varela (2005) Manuel Lugrís Freire (2006) María Mariño (2007) Xosé María Álvarez Blázquez (2008) Ramón Piñeiro López (2009) Uxío Novoneyra (2010) Lois Pereiro (2011) Valentín Paz-Andrade (2012) Roberto Vidal Bolaño (2013) Xosé María Díaz Castro (2014) Xosé Filgueira Valverde (2015) Manuel María (2016) Carlos Casares (2017) María Victoria Moreno (2018) Antón Fraguas (2019) Ricardo Carballo Calero (2020) Xela Arias (2021) Authority control BNE: XX823708 BNF: cb12158195c (data) CANTIC: a10485806 GND: 12202611X ISNI: 0000 0001 1029 7328 LCCN: n83140484 NKC: jo2006219827 NLI: 000454846 NTA: 06795670X SNAC: w6m32v5s SUDOC: 030097614 VcBA: 495/127137 VIAF: 76355548 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n83140484 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martín_Sarmiento&oldid=990688660" Categories: 1695 births 1772 deaths People from El Bierzo Spanish male writers Galician writers Spanish Benedictines Enlightenment philosophers Age of Enlightenment University of Salamanca alumni Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages العربية Español Esperanto Galego مصرى Polski Português Edit links This page was last edited on 25 November 2020, at 23:27 (UTC). 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