Bernardino de Sahagún
Spanish historian
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authorship of encyclopaedia
- In encyclopaedia: Special interests
…the 16th-century Spanish Franciscan Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, who spent much of his life in missionary work in Mexico. Sahagún was ordered to write in Nahuatl the information needed by his colleagues for the conversion of the indigenous peoples of the region. The result, the Historia general de las cosas…
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contribution to Aztec historical record
- In pre-Columbian civilizations: Postconquest ethnographic accounts written in Spanish and Náhuatl
…of them was written by Bernardino de Sahagún. Sahagún was a Franciscan priest who arrived in Mexico very early (1529), learned the Náhuatl tongue, and spent his life building a wonderful monument, a real encyclopaedia called the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (“General History of the Things…
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