Ángel María Garibay K.
Illustration — Bust of Garibay Kintana in Tenancingo, State of Mexico. Fray Ángel María Garibay Kintana (18 June 1892 – 19 October 1967) was a Mexican Catholic priest, philologist, linguist, historian, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, specifically of the Nahua peoples of the central Mexican highlands. He is particularly noted for his studies and translations of conquest-era primary source documents written in Classical Nahuatl, the lingua franca of Postclassic central Mexico and the then-dominant Aztec empire.
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- Full name
- Ángel María Garibay Kintana.
- Born
- 1892. · Toluca de Lerdo.
- Died
- 1967. · Mexico City.
- Nationality
- Mexico.
- Occupation
- linguist, translator, catholic priest, poet, mesoamericanist and historian.
- Honours
- National Prize for Arts and Sciences and Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
- Languages
- Spanish.
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Illustration — Bust of Garibay Kintana in Tenancingo, State of Mexico. Fray Ángel María Garibay Kintana (18 June 1892 – 19 October 1967) was a Mexican Catholic priest, philologist, linguist, historian, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, specifically of the Nahua peoples of the central Mexican highlands. He is particularly noted for his studies and translations of conquest-era primary source documents written in Classical Nahuatl, the lingua franca of Postclassic central Mexico and the then-dominant Aztec empire.
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Alongside his former student Miguel León-Portilla, Garibay ranks as one of the pre-eminent Mexican authorities on the Nahuatl language and its literary heritage, and as one who has made a significant contribution towards the promotion and preservation of the indigenous cultures and languages of Mexico. Garibay and León-Portilla published texts and scholarly analysis for the study of classical Nahuatl literature, founded the journal Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl, and created the Seminario de Cultura Náhuatl. In the seminar, they taught fundamentals of literature and linguistics to Nahuas, who went on to create a modern Nahuatl literature. In recent years, the relationship between the development of Nahuatl literature as a field and the ideologies of indigenismo and mestizaje has been critically examined.
The recorded working language is Spanish. Work by Ángel María Garibay K. is recorded in the collections of Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Distinctions recorded are National Prize for Arts and Sciences and Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
• Illustration — Ángel María Garibay Kintana Square in Toluca de Lerdo. 2014. • 1937. La poesía lírica azteca. Mexico City: Bajo el signo de ábside, 1937. • 1940. Poesía indígena de la altiplanicie. Mexico City: UNAM. • 1958. Veinte himnos sacros de los nahuas. Los recogió de los nativos Fr. Bernardino de Sahagun, franciscano, México, UNAM, Instituto de Historia: Seminario de Cultura Náhuatl. • 1961. Llave del náhuatl: colección de trozos clásicos, con gramática y vocabulario, para utilidad de los principiantes. Editorial Porrúa. • 1963. Panorama literario de los pueblos nahuas. No. 22. Editorial Porrúa. • 1964. La literatura de los aztecas. México: J. Mortiz. • 1965. Poesía náhuatl. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Historia, Seminario de Cultura Náhuatl. • 1967. "Códice Carolino": manuscrito anónimo del siglo XVI en forma de adiciones a la primera edición del" Vocabulario de Molina." Estudios de cultura náhuatl 7 (1967): 88. • 1987. Historia de la literatura nahuatl: Primera parte: Étapa autónoma: de c. 1430 a 1521;[2]: Segunda parte: El Trauma de la conquista: 1521-1750. Porrúa, 1987. • 1993. Poesía náhuatl. 3 vols. Mexico City: UNAM. • 1997. Panorama literario de los pueblos nahuas. Mexico City: Editorial Porrúa.
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Ángel María Garibay K. was recorded at birth as Ángel María Garibay Kintana. The authorities additionally record the headings Angel Maria Garibay K. and Angel Maria Garibay. His recorded language was Spanish. His recorded confession was Catholicism.
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1892
Ángel María Garibay K. born at Toluca de Lerdo.
1967
Ángel María Garibay K. died at Mexico City.
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- Ángel María Garibay (1892-1967): the analysis of Nahuati poetic texts as a contribution to Mexican historical science, Исторический журнал: научные исследования, 2020
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2020
- Ángel María Garibay Kintana (1892-1967), Estudios de Cultura Maya, 2012
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2012
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- “Ángel María Garibay K.”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Recognition and collections. Ángel María Garibay K. received National Prize for Arts and Sciences and Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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