Adrián Recinos
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Adrián Recinos (July 5, 1886 – March 8, 1962) was a Guatemalan historian, essayist, Mayanist scholar and translator, and diplomat. Recinos was a student of national history, especially the Maya civilization and the ancient history of the K'iche' and Kaqchikel people.
He published the first Spanish edition of Popol Vuh, based on his translation of the manuscript found in the Newberry Library, Chicago. He also published his translations of other ancient Mayan manuscripts, including the Anales de los Cakchiqueles.
Biography
Adrián Recinos was born on July 5, 1886, in Antigua Guatemala,[1] as the son of Teodoro M. Recinos and Rafaela Ávila de Recinos.[2] He married María Palomo and had five children, Beatrice, Isabel, Mary, Adrian Jr., and Laura.[2] All four of his daughters would remain in Guatemala for the majority of their lives, and Adrian Jr. would attend Harvard University, and later became an M.D. in the U.S. while residing in Washington D.C.
Recinos obtained his bachelor's degree of Sciences and Letters in 1902, and graduated from the School of Law in Guatemala in 1907. He pursued a public career as a diplomat and was Secretary of Legation in El Salvador (1908), Under-Secretary of State (1910–1920), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1922–1923), Ambassador to France, Spain, and Italy (1923–1925), President of the Legislative Assembly (1926), and Ambassador to the USA (1928–1943). In 1944 he ran as a candidate to the Presidency of the Republic, but lost the elections to Juan José Arévalo.[2][3]
He died in 1962.
Legacy
Recinos had a passion for Guatemalan history and was a founding member of the Sociedad de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala, currently known as Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala. He was also a member of the Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística (Mexico), Sociedad Histórica Americana (Buenos Aires), Instituto Iberico-Americano de Derecho Comparado (Madrid), amongst others.[2]
Adrián Recinos received national and international recognition for his publications on Guatemala's history and his translations of ancient Mayan manuscripts.
Published works
- Indigenous chronicles of Guatemala
- The City of Guatemala (historical description from its foundation to 1917-1918 earthquakes)
- Monographs of the Department of Huehuetenango
Original Spanish language editions
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Monografía del Departamento de Huehuetenango. Guatemala: Tipografía Sánchez & de Guise. 1913.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lecciones de filosofía. Guatemala: Tipografía Sánchez & de Guise. 1914.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.La ciudad de Guatemala, crónica histórica desde su fundación hasta los terremotos de 1917-1918. Guatemala: Adrián Recinos. 1922.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Poesías de José Batres Montúfar (natural de Guatemala). Madrid: Imprenta Helénica. 1924.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Popol Vuh: las antiguas historias del quiché. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 1947.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Título de los señores de Totonicapán traducción y notas. 1949.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Memorial de Sololá, Anales de los cakchiqueles; / traducción directa del original, introducción y notas de Adrián Recinos. Título de los señores de Totonicapán; traducción del original quiché por Dionisio José Chonay, introducción y notas de Adrián Recinos. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica. 1950.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pedro de Alvarado: conquistador de México y Guatemala. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 1952.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Crónicas indígenas de Guatemala. Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos. 1957.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Doña Leonor de Alvarado y otros estudios. Guatemala: Editorial Universitaria. 1958.
Notes
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- ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding Library of Congress Linked Data Service: linked authority record n82036034.
- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hilton, Ronald (n.d.). Who's who in Latin America: A biographical dictionary of notable living men and women of Latin America (Third edition, revised and enlarged ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 44.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Handy, Jim (1995). Revolution in the countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 32, 145–6. ISBN 978-0-8078-4438-0.
References
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Recinos, Adrian (1998). Memorial de Sololá, Anales de los Kaqchikeles; Título de los Señores de Totonicapán (in español). Guatemala: Piedra Santa. ISBN 84-8377-006-7. OCLC 25476196.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Recinos, Adrian (1986). Pedro de Alvarado: Conquistador de México y Guatemala (in español). Guatemala: CENALTEX.
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