Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra

Violeta Lorenzo (University of Arkansas)

Ed. by Carolina Orloff, Independent Scholar - Europe
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.3: Hispanic Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 1745
Died 1813
Activity 1771-1813

Places

Born in Spain
Active in Puerto Rico; Spain

Activities

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Historian / Chronicler
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Resources

Abbad y Lasierra's Works

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The Spanish historian Friar Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra has been credited with writing Puerto Rico’s first history book. A well-educated man, he wrote

Historia geográfica, civil y natural de la isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico

[Geographic, Civil and Natural History of the Island of Saint John the Baptist of Puerto Rico] (1788) with a view to correcting mistakes made by previous writers and to propose solutions to a series of socioeconomic problems faced by the island.

Abbad y Lasierra was born in 1745 to a noble family in Estadilla, Spain. He had ten siblings, including an older brother named Manuel who was an honorary member of the Real Academia Española [Royal Spanish Academy] and held important positions within the Catholic Church. As a young man, Abbad y Lasierra studied

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Citation: Lorenzo, Violeta. "Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 May 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13930, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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