Vidal Morales y Morales
Vidal Morales | |
|---|---|
| Born | Vidal Morales y Morales April 21, 1848 Havana, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire |
| Died | August 27, 1904 Havana, Cuba |
| Nationality |  Republic of Cuba |
Vidal Morales y Morales (April 21, 1848 – August 27, 1904) was a Cuban lawyer, writer, and historian.[1]
Biography
[edit]Early life and education
[edit]Vidal Morales y Morales was born on April 21, 1848, in Havana, Spanish Cuba.[2]
Morales completed his Civil Law studies at the University of Havana. He was a pupil of José Ignacio Rodríguez's teachings in Havana.[3] By 1872, he had become a Doctor of Jurisprudence.[4] He was the founding secretary of the Havana Bar Association (Spanish: Colegio de Abogados de la Habana) in Havana.[5]
Cuban Anthropological Society
[edit]On September 16, 1877, the Anthropological Society of the Island of Cuba (Spanish: Sociedad Antropologica de la Isla de Cuba) elected its new board for 1877–1878, with Morales among the members in attendance.[6]
In 1882, Vidal Morales y Morales had been in contact with Marcos Jiménez de la Espada to find out if the second volume of La Guerra de Quito had been published.[7]
Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country
[edit]He attended the inauguration of the "Royal Academy of Medical, Physical, and Natural Sciences" (now the Cuban Academy of Sciences) in Havana on May 19, 1886, as a correspondent for the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country (Spanish: Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País).[8]
He donated a volume to the Boston Public Library from Havana, in 1888.[9]
In 1891, Morales wrote his first piece appearing in La Tertulia, a publication of Cuban cultural promotion.[10]
By 1892, the noted biographer Morales was in possession of an unpublished manuscript for José Antonio Saco's autobiography.[11]
U.S. occupation of Cuba
[edit]On August 2, 1899, the military governor of Cuba Leonard Wood assigned Vidal Morales y Morales to be an associate justice of Pinar del Río Province.[12]
National Archive of Cuba
[edit]Appointed by Gen. Wood on January 25, 1900, he began overseeing the Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba in February.[13] He was the founder of its bulletin.[14]
In January 1901, he published "Inciadores y Primeros Mártires de la Revolución Cubana" (English: Initiators and First Martyrs of the Cuban Revolution) in Havana.[15] He wrote the historical manual, Nociones de Historia de Cuba (English: Notions of Cuban History), published in 1901.[16] The texts were the leading textbooks on Cuban history in elementary schools. A 1902 manual for Cuba's teacher certification exam included letters by Morales, Manuel Sanguily, Nicolás Heredia, Carlos de la Torre, Manuel Valdés Rodríguez, and Esteban Borrero.[17] It was approved by the Board of Superintendents of Public Schools of the Island of Cuba on November 25, 1903.[18]
In the early months of 1904, Morales y Morales had publications in the January, February, and March issues of the magazine Cuba Pedagógica.[19] His work Hombres del 68 (English: Men of '68) was also published in 1904.[20]
Death
[edit]Morales died in Havana, Cuba on August 27, 1904.[21]
Further reading
[edit]The Vidal Morales y Morales Collection is included in the 'Antonio Bachiller y Morales' Collection at the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí in Havana, Cuba.[22][23]
References
[edit]- ^ Santiago. (1981). Cuba: La Universidad.
- ^ "Vidal Morales y Morales". biografiasyvidas.com. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ McCadden, J., McCadden, H. M. (1969). Father Varela; Torch Bearer from Cuba. United States: United States Catholic Historical Society.
- ^ American Sugar Industry. (1915). United States: R. Palmer.
- ^ Santa Cruz y Mallén, F. X. d. (1940). Historia de familias cubanas. United States: Editorial Hércules.
- ^ Crónica médico-quirúrgica de La Habana. (1877). Cuba: Propaganda Literaria.
- ^ Morales y Morales, V., Jiménez de la Espada, M. (1882). Vidal Morales y Morales se dirige a Marcos Jiménez de la Espada para saber si se ha publicado el tomo segundo de La Guerra de Quito. (n.p.): (n.p.).
- ^ Anales de la Academia de ciencias medicas, físicas y naturales de la Habana: Revista científica. (1886). Cuba: Academia de Ciencias Médicas, Físicas y Naturales de la Habana..
- ^ Document. (1890). United States: City Council.
- ^ Cuadernos de cultura. (1934). Cuba: Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de Cultura.
- ^ Revista cubana. (1892). Cuba: Soler, Alvarez y Comp..
- ^ Annual Reports of the War Department. (1900). United States: U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ Annual Report of the Secretary of War. (1901). United States: U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ General History of the Caribbean. (1999). United Kingdom: Unesco.
- ^ Wilgus, A. C. (1965). Histories and Historians of Hispanic America. United Kingdom: Cooper Square Publishers.
- ^ The Cuban Republic and José Martí: Reception and Use of a National Symbol. (2006). United Kingdom: Lexington Books.
- ^ Iglesias Utset, M. (2011). A Cultural History of Cuba During the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902. United States: University of North Carolina Press.
- ^ Alvarez Conde, J. (1951). Carlos de la Torre, su vida y su obra. Cuba: Impr. 'El Siglo XX'.
- ^ Cuba contemporanea: revista mensual. (1925). Cuba: (n.p.).
- ^ Morales y Morales, V. (1904). Hombres del 68: Rafael Morales y González : contribución al estudio de la historia de la independencia de Cuba. Cuba: Rambla y Bouza.
- ^ Dollero, A. (1916). Cuban Culture. Cuba: Impr. "El Siglo XX" de A. Miranda.
- ^ "Consultation rooms | Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí". bnjm.cu. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ Pettway, M. (2019). Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion. United States: University Press of Mississippi.
