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Rajmund Kupareo (Spanish: Raimundo Kupareo) (1914–1996) was a Croatian poet, catholic priest from Dominican Order, theological writer, composer, translator and editor. He wrote in Croatian, Czech, Latin and Spanish. He spent most productive years of his life working in Chile as a professor of aesthetics and axiology in Santiago de Chile; he served there as the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy (twice) and the vice-rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.〔("Instituto de Estetica: Historia", Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, retrieved 11.29.2014(in Spanish) )〕 ==Life== Rajmund Kupareo was born on November 16, 1914 in Vrboska, the island of Hvar, as a descendant of an old noble family. He entered the Order of the Preachers in Dubrovnik in 1930 and was ordained priest in Split in 1937. He studied philosophy, theology and languages in Dubrovnik, Zagreb (Croatia), Olomouc (Moravia), Santiago de Chile (Chile) and Washington, D.C. (USA).〔("O dominikancu Rajmundu Kupareu i svečanom obilježavanju 100. obljetnice njegova rođenja" ), Marito Mihovil Letica, "Radio Vaticana" 08.10.2014 (in Croatian)]〕〔("Hrvati u Čileu: Osvrt na život i rad Rajmunda Kuparea" ), Marina Perić, "Kolo" 2, 2007 (in Croatian)]〕 During World War II, Kupareo was the editor-in-chief of ''Gospina krunica'' (Our Lady’s Rosary), a Catholic monthly magazine in Zagreb. He was also the manager of the Dominican publishing house ''Istina'' (Truth) which published a translation of The Story of a Soul by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and ''Razmišljanja o krunici'' (Meditations on the Rosary), a book translated by Aloysius Stepinac, the Archbishop of Zagreb. The arrival of the communist troops in the spring of 1945 hindered his project to publish all the sermons and speeches delivered by Stepinac from 1934 to 1944, in which the Archbishop had strongly condemned racism and intolerance and emphasized the right of the Croatian people to have their own state. After having entered Zagreb, the communists destroyed the entire edition of 10.000 books in the printing-house. Only one copy was saved and Stepinac later used it at his trial to show that there was no freedom of press in Tito’s Yugoslavia.〔("Rajmund Kupareo" ), "Verbum", retrieved 11.27.2014 (in Croatian)]〕 Kupareo was forced to leave Croatia on January 2, 1947, and did not see his homeland again until June 10, 1971. Kupareo took refuge first in the Czech Republic, afterwards in the Netherlands, France and Spain. Finally, in 1950, he found his place in Chile. He spent his most productive years as a professor of aesthetics and axiology in Santiago de Chile and served as the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy (twice) and the vice-rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He was the founder of the Institute of Aesthetics and the School of Journalism in Santiago de Chile, as well as initiator and editor of several publications. As the official representative of his university, he traveled through North, Central and South America, Europe and the Middle East.〔("Kupareo, Raumund", "Hrvatska enciklopedija" retrieved 29.11.2014 (in Croatian) )〕〔("CONCEPTOS SOBRE EDUCACION POR EL ARTE EN LA ESTETICA DEL DR. RAIMUNDO KUPAREO B", Radoslav K. Ivelic, REvista Educarte, 32/33, 2006, Pg. 18 and 19 (in Spanish) )〕 A stroke hit him on 14 May 1970 and forced him to retire. He returned to Croatia to die, but has recovered to a certain degree and led a secluded and simple life in the Dominican priory in Zagreb. Despite his frail condition, he continued his literary and scientific work. In 1985 he became a member of ''Academia Chilena de la Lengua'' of the ''Instituto de Chile'', the Chilean Academy of Arts and Letters. After the democratic changes in Croatia he finally became a member of the Croatian Writers Association. In 1985, he was promoted a foreign member of ''Academia Chilena de la Lengua''.〔("ANALES DEL INSTITUTO DE CHILE, 1985", (in Spanish) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rajmund Kupareo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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