María Ugarte

María Ugarte España (22 February 1914, Segovia, Spain – 4 March 2011, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) was a Spanish-Dominican journalist, writer, academician, historian and palaeographer. Ugarte was the first woman who worked as a journalist in the Dominican Republic,[5][7] and also the first woman to become a member of the Dominican Academy of History.[8]

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Ugarte and the second or maternal family name is España.

María Ugarte
Born	(1914-02-22)February 22, 1914 Segovia, Spain[1]
Died	March 4, 2011(2011-03-04) (aged 97) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic[1]
Resting place	Cristo Redentor cemetery[1]
Citizenship	Spanish (1914–2011) Dominican (1950–2011)[2]
Alma mater	Complutense University of Madrid[3]
Notable awards	Order of Civil Merit (1986)[4] Patrimonio Cultural Viviente de la República Dominicana (1995)[5] Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella (2002)[1] Premio Nacional de Literatura (2006)[5]
Spouses	Constantino Brusíloff José A. Jiménez ​ ( m. 1950; died 1966)
Children	Carmenchu Brusíloff[6]

Biography

María Ugarte was born in Segovia, Old Castile, Spain, to Comdt. Jerónimo de Ugarte Roure, a Basque soldier who became civil governor of Zamora in the second Republican biennium.[9] She was a student of Antonio Machado and Ortega y Gasset, and classmate of Julián Marías.[10]

Ugarte España obtained a degree in Philosophy and Literature (1935) at the Central University of Madrid (now Complutense University of Madrid), specializing in Historical Sciences, and was assistant professor of the historian Pío Zabala (1934–1936).[8][11]

At the university she met Constantino Brusíloff (b. Constantin Alekseievich Brusiloff-Nigehorodzeff, Saint Petersburg, 1895 – Caracas, 1977), a Russian exile, veteran of the First World War (and later from the Spanish Civil War too).[9] They married and had a daughter Carmen.[12]

The political situation in the country with the outbreak of the civil war and the rise of Franco, forced them to fled into exile in the Dominican Republic,[6][9] where they arrived on early February 1940.[8] At first, Ugarte worked at the State Secretariat for Foreign Affairs;[7] she also went on to teach the Spanish language to the refugees of the World War II in Sosúa, in northern Dominican Republic.[13]

Between June and November 1943 she taught at the University of Santo Domingo the first course of Archival Science that was ever held at the Dominican Republic. She made the first Bulletin Index of the General Archive of the Nation, which was published in 1947.[8] During the 1940s, Ugarte discovered a huge repertoire of colonial documents, among them, the Royal Archives of Bayaguana.[8][11] By 1945, Brusíloff and Ugarte divorced and the former moved to Venezuela.[9]

On April 1948, Ugarte started her career as journalist in the newspaper El Caribe,[2][11] invited by its managing editor, Mr. Rafael Herrera;[10] at El Caribe she was assistant editor, director of the cultural supplement (1963–1998), and director of Supplements and worked in there until she retired, in 2000.[2][11] In 1950, she married with separate property to the cattleman José Antonio Jiménez Álvarez.[7]

Works

• Origen de las universidades y de los títulos académicos[8]
• Monumentos coloniales (1977)[11]
• La Catedral de Santo Domingo, Primada de América (1992)[11]
• Iglesias, capillas y ermitas coloniales (1995)[11]
• Estampas coloniales (1998)[11]
• Prats Ventós, 1925–1999 (2002)[11]

References

1. Ramírez, Xiomara (5 March 2011). "Murió a los 97 años la escritora y periodista María Ugarte" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Listín Diario. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
2. Campo, Iban (23 February 2006). "La española María Ugarte recibe el Premio Nacional de Literatura de República Dominicana" (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
3. Ethel, Carolina (26 January 2009). "La escuela de los sueños" (in Spanish). Madrid: El País. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
4. "Presentarán en Madrid entrevista con María Ugarte" (in Spanish). Hoy. 4 January 2008. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
5. López, Yaniris (17 September 2011). "Homenaje a María Ugarte" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Listín Diario. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
6. "María Ugarte, maestra de generaciones literarias" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Diario Libre. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
7. Suriel, Leomaira. "María Ugarte íntima" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Listín Diario. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
8. González de Peña, Raymundo. "María Ugarte, historiadora" (PDF) (in Spanish). Academia Dominicana de la Historia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
9. Aizpuru, Mikel; Fernández Blanco, Aída:«Los estudios de Filología Moderna. La enseñanza de las lenguas modernas. Ruso», en López Ríos, S.; González Cárceles, Juan Antonio: La Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de Madrid en la Segunda República. Arquitectura y Universidad durante los años 30, Madrid, Sociedad Estatal de Commemoraciones Culturales,2008, pp. 396–399
10. Campo, Iban (27 February 2006). "Cuando me reconocen con estos galardones me pregunto si me los merezco" (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
11. "MARÍA UGARTE: Dedicatoria especial en la 5ta. Mini Feria del Libro de ÁGORA MALL" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Dominican On Line. 27 March 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
12. Beiro, Luis (3 August 2013). "María Ugarte entrevista histórica" (in Spanish). Listín Diario. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
13. Aizpuru, Mikel (2009). El Informe Brusíloff: la Guerra Civil de 1936 en el Frente Norte vista por un traductor ruso (in Spanish). Zarautz: Alberdania SL. p. 305. ISBN 978-84-9868-056-0. Retrieved 24 September 2014.