Alberto Zum Felde ( Bahía Blanca, 30 May 1887, 1888 or 1889Red Académica Uruguaya
Alberto Zum Felde
– Montevideo, 6 May 1976) was a

Uruguayan Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

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, critic and

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. As shown by Arturo Ardao, Zum Felde is very relevant among the currents of thought of

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in the Americas. He was one of the nine founding members of the Uruguayan Academy of Letters.Academia Nacional de Letras

Selected works

* ''El Huanakauri'' (1917). * ''Proceso histórico del Uruguay: esquema de una sociología nacional'' (1919). * ''Crítica de la literatura uruguaya'' (1921). * ''Estética del 900'' (1929). * ''Proceso intelectual del Uruguay: crítica de su literatura'' (1930). * ''Índice de la poesía uruguaya contemporánea'' (1933). * ''Alción. Misterio en tres cielos'' (1934). * ''Aula Magna o la Sibyla y el filósofo'' (1937). * ''La literatura del Uruguay'' (1939). * ''El ocaso de la democracia'' (1939). * ''El problema de la cultura americana'' (1943). * ''Índice crítico de la literatura hispanoamericana: la ensayística'' (1954). * ''Índice crítico de la literatura hispanoamericana: la narrativa'' (1959). * ''Cristo y nosotros. El problema religioso y la cultura contemporánea'' (1959). * ''Diálogo Cristo-Marx'' (1971).

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1880s births 1976 deaths Year of birth uncertain Uruguayan people of Argentine descent Uruguayan people of German descent People from Bahía Blanca 20th-century Uruguayan historians Uruguayan essayists Uruguayan literary critics Members of the Uruguayan Academy of Language {{Uruguay-historian-stub