María Ugarte

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|02|22}}

| birth_place = Segovia, Spain

| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|03|04|1914|02|22}}

| death_place = Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

| resting_place = Cristo Redentor cemetery

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| citizenship = Spanish (1914–2011)
Dominican (1950–2011){{cite news|last1=Campo|first1=Iban|title=La española María Ugarte recibe el Premio Nacional de Literatura de República Dominicana|url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2006/02/23/actualidad/1140649201_850215.html|newspaper=El País|accessdate=23 September 2014|language=Spanish|date=23 February 2006}}

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| alma_mater = Complutense University of Madrid{{cite news|last1=Ethel|first1=Carolina|title=La escuela de los sueños|url=http://elpais.com/diario/2009/01/26/cultura/1232924402_850215.html|newspaper=El País|accessdate=23 September 2014|location=Madrid|language=Spanish|date=26 January 2009}}

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{{marriage|Constantino Brusíloff|1935|1945|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|José A. Jiménez|1950|1966|end=died}}

| children = Carmenchu Brusíloff{{cite web|title=María Ugarte, maestra de generaciones literarias|url=http://www.diariolibre.com/revista/2014/03/31/i548821_mara-ugarte-maestra-generaciones-literarias.html|publisher=Diario Libre|accessdate=23 September 2014|location=Santo Domingo|language=Spanish|date=31 March 2014}}

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| awards = {{flagicon|ESP}} Order of Civil Merit (1986){{cite web|title=Presentarán en Madrid entrevista con María Ugarte|url=http://hoy.com.do/presentaran-en-madridentrevista-con-maria-ugarte/|publisher=Hoy|accessdate=23 September 2014|language=Spanish|date=4 January 2008}}

{{flagicon|DOM}} Patrimonio Cultural Viviente de la República Dominicana (1995){{cite news|last1=López|first1=Yaniris|title=Homenaje a María Ugarte|url=http://www.listindiario.com/ventana/2011/9/16/203845/Homenaje-a-Maria-Ugarte|accessdate=23 September 2014|publisher=Listín Diario|date=17 September 2011|location=Santo Domingo|language=Spanish}}

{{flagicon|DOM}} Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella (2002){{cite web|last1=Ramírez|first1=Xiomara|title=Murió a los 97 años la escritora y periodista María Ugarte|url=http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2011/3/4/179793/Murio-a-los-97-anos-la-escritora-y-periodista-Maria-Ugarte|publisher=Listín Diario|accessdate=23 September 2014|location=Santo Domingo|language=Spanish|date=5 March 2011}}

{{flagicon|DOM}} Premio Nacional de Literatura (2006)

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María de la Purificación Ugarte España{{cite web | url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/110984/maria-de-la-purificacion-ugarte-espana | title=María de la Purificación Ugarte España | Real Academia de la Historia }} (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,{{cite web|last1=Suriel|first1=Leomaira|title=María Ugarte íntima|date=30 March 2014 |url=http://www.listindiario.com/ventana/2014/3/29/316268/Maria-Ugarte-intima|publisher=Listín Diario|accessdate=23 September 2014|location=Santo Domingo|language=Spanish}} and also the first woman to become a member of the Dominican Academy of History.{{cite web|last1=González de Peña|first1=Raymundo|title=María Ugarte, historiadora|url=http://www.clio.academiahistoria.org.do/trabajos/clio181/Clio_2011_No_181-04.pdf|publisher=Academia Dominicana de la Historia|accessdate=23 September 2014|language=Spanish|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723125508/http://www.clio.academiahistoria.org.do/trabajos/clio181/Clio_2011_No_181-04.pdf|archivedate=23 July 2015|df=dmy-all}}

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. She was a student of Antonio Machado and Ortega y Gasset, and classmate of Julián Marías.{{cite news |last1=Campo |first1=Iban |title=Cuando me reconocen con estos galardones me pregunto si me los merezco |url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2006/02/27/actualidad/1140994801_850215.html |newspaper=El País |accessdate=23 September 2014 |language=Spanish |date=27 February 2006}}

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 {{interlanguage link|Pío Zabala|es|Pío Zabala y Lera}} (1934–1936).

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).{{Smallcaps|Aizpuru}}, Mikel; {{Smallcaps|Fernández Blanco}}, Aída:«Los estudios de Filología Moderna. La enseñanza de las lenguas modernas. Ruso», en {{Smallcaps|López Ríos}}, S.; {{Smallcaps|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 They married and had a daughter Carmen.{{cite web|last1=Beiro|first1=Luis|title=María Ugarte entrevista histórica|url=http://www.listindiario.com/ventana/2013/8/2/286928/Maria-Ugarte-entrevista-historica|publisher=Listín Diario|accessdate=23 September 2014|language=Spanish|date=3 August 2013}}

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, where they arrived on early February 1940. At first, Ugarte worked at the State Secretariat for Foreign Affairs; she also went on to teach the Spanish language to Jewish refugees of the World War II in Sosúa, in northern Dominican Republic.{{Cite book|title = El Informe Brusíloff: la Guerra Civil de 1936 en el Frente Norte vista por un traductor ruso|last = Aizpuru |first = Mikel|publisher = Alberdania SL|year = 2009|isbn = 978-84-9868-056-0|location = Zarautz|pages = 305|accessdate = 24 September 2014|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=O8LYGm81Mq8C&pg=PA305|language = Spanish}}https://hoy.com.do/dos-pasiones-en-maria-ugarte/

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. During the 1940s, Ugarte discovered a huge repertoire of colonial documents, among them, the Royal Archives of Bayaguana.{{cite web|title=MARÍA UGARTE: Dedicatoria especial en la 5ta. Mini Feria del Libro de ÁGORA MALL|url=http://www.dominicanaonline.org/portal/espanol/cpo_noti5398.asp|publisher=Dominican On Line|accessdate=23 September 2014|location=Santo Domingo|language=Spanish|date=27 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140923104630/http://www.dominicanaonline.org/portal/espanol/cpo_noti5398.asp|archive-date=23 September 2014|url-status=dead}} By 1945, Brusíloff and Ugarte divorced and the former moved to Venezuela.

In April 1948, Ugarte started her career as a journalist in the newspaper El Caribe, invited by its managing editor, Mr. Rafael Herrera; 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. In 1950, she married with separate property to the cattleman José Antonio Jiménez Álvarez.