Juan de Gaona

Fray Juan de Gaona (1507–1560)^[1] was a Franciscan friar. Born in 1507 in Burgos Spain, he studied at the University of Paris before journeying to New Spain in 1538.

Gaona died on 27 September 1560. He had composed a Nahuatl-language text, Colloquios de la paz, y tranquilidad Christiana ("Dialogues of peace and Christian tranquility"), which was published after his death in 1582.

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^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF) .

References

Hernández de León-Portilla, Ascención (1993). "Lengua y cultura náhuatl en el Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco". In Marie-Cécile Bénassy-Berling, Jean-Pierre Clément, and Alain Milhou (eds.). Langues et cultures en Amérique espagnole coloniale: colloque international, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle-Paris III, 22-23 novembre 1991. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle. pp. 135–144. ISBN 2-87854-043-3. OCLC 29668561. (Spanish)

León-Portilla, Miguel (2002). Bernardino de Sahagun, First Anthráopologist. Mauricio J. Mixco (trans.) (Originally published as Bernardino de Sahagún: Pionero de la Antropología ©1999, UNAM. ed.). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3364-3. OCLC 47990042.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Toribio Motolinia	Provincial of the province of the Holy Gospel	Succeeded by Juan de San Francisco

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Name	Gaona, Juan De
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Date of birth	1507
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Date of death	1560
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