Juan Huarte de San Juan

Juan Huarte de San Juan or Juan Huarte y Navarro (1529-1588) was a Spanish physician and psychologist. He was born at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port around 1530, and was educated, firstly, at the university of Huesca [1], and then at the University of Alcalá, where he graduated in medicine.

Though it appears doubtful whether he practiced as a physician at Huesca, Huarte distinguished himself by his professional skill and heroic zeal during the plague which devastated Baeza in 1566.[1]

Huarte published the first edition of his Examen de ingenios para las ciencias in 1575, which won him a European reputation, and was translated by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Despite its initial proscription by the Inquisition, copies of the Examen were found in many of Barcelona's public and private libraries (including those of Joaquín Setantí, Jeroni Tarrassa, Joan Nadal de Prats, Pau Ignasi de Dalmases and the library of the Jesuit school).[2] Though now superseded, Huarte's treatise is historically interesting as the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology, and its acute ingenuity is as remarkable as the boldness of its views.[1] In 1594, after his death, a second, revised and expurgated (by the Inquisition) version was published.[3] During the 16th, 17th and 18th century, the Examen was translated into six European languages: French, Italian, English, Latin, German and Dutch.[4] Richard Carew was the translator of Examen de Ingenios into English, basing his translation on Camilli's Italian version. (This book is the first systematic attempt to relate physiology with psychology, though based on the medicine of Galen. Four editions of this translation were published: in 1594, 1596, 1604 and 1616.)[5]

He died in Linares.

Today Huarte de San Juan is considered the patron of Spanish psychology.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Hugh Chisholm. Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. HUARTE DE SAN JUAN. Cambridge England: at the University press. Published 1910.
  2. ^ Honored Citizens of Barcelona by J.S. Amelang
  3. ^ a b Julián Velarde Lombraña. HUARTE DE SAN JUAN , PATRONO DE PSICOLOGÍA. Psicothema. 1993. Vol. 5, nº 2, pp. 451-458.
  4. ^ a b Javier Virués Ortega. JUAN HUARTE DE SAN JUAN IN CARTESIAN AND MODERN PSYCHOLINGUISTICS: AN ENCOUNTER WITH NOAM CHOMSKY. Psicothema. 2005. Vol. 17, nº 3, pp. 436-440.
  5. ^ Carew Survey of Cornwall. London, 1953; pp. 32-37, 323

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

Examen de ingenios para las ciencias full text in Spanish at archive.org