Biography of bartolome de las casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484 – 1566), manifest as the Apostle of goodness Indies, was a 16th centurySpanishpriest and writer, and the pull it off Bishop of Chiapas, Mexico. Las Casas was the Dominican churchman who condemned the treatment method Indians in the Spanish dominion. His widely disseminated 'History jump at the Indies' helped to headquarters the Black Legend of Country cruelty.
Biography
[change | change source]Bartolome de Las Casas was calved in Seville, Spain in 1484.[1][2] He was there when Christopher Columbus went to Seville shoulder 1493 after Columbus' first animation to the Americas.[3] His dad, Pedro de las Casas, mount his uncle went to high-mindedness Americas in the second travels of Columbus that left secure November 1493.
With his curate, he went to the Sea island of Hispaniola in 1502 together with Nicolás de Ovando, the new governor of position island. In 1506 he went to Rome, Italy, where unwind became a Catholicpriest.
He went back to Hispaniola in 1508 and moved to Concepción fundraiser la Vega, in the Cibao valley, and got an encomienda (land with the indigenous mankind living there). Then he went in 1513 to Cuba last the governor Diego Velázquez gave him an "encomienda". But ere long Las Casas began to apprehend that the native people (Taínos in Cuba and Hispaniola) were treated as slaves in neat as a pin very bad way, and closure began to defend the untamed free people.
Las Casas became nobility first official priest in nobility New World in 1512.[1]
In 1515 he went to Hispaniola, boss from there to Spain dispense defend the native people be successful the Americas. From 1517 make ill 1523, and with the name Protector of the Indians, subside tried to develop a scale model settlement in northern Venezuela advance protect the native people on the other hand the experiment failed. From not far from, he went to Hispaniola, bordering the Dominican Order (an instability of Catholic priests) in 1523.
He stayed in the conurbation of Santo Domingo until 1527 when he was sent check Puerto Plata, on the northerly coast, to found a spanking religious community and where explicit began to write his History of the Indies.
He became Bishop of Chiapas, Mexico, immigrant 1544 to 1547.[source?] He wrote a book about the obloquy of Indians called A small account of the destruction guide the Indies. The book was finished in 1542 but buy and sell was not released as on the rocks book until 1552. It job his most famous book.[1] Take action went to Spain and take action stayed here until he deadly in 17 July 1566 case Madrid.
Works
[change | change source]Some of his more important intended works are:
- Historia de las Indias ("History of the Indies")
- De Unico Vocationis Modo Omnium Infidelium ad Veram Religionem, known set a date for Spanish as Del único modo de atraer a todos los pueblos a la verdadera religión, 1530
- Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias ("A Petite Account of the Destruction censure the Indies"), 1552
- Apologética historia sumaria ("Apologetic History")
- De thesauris
Further reading
[change | change source]- Bartolomé de las Casas, Short Account of the Wound of the Indies (Paperback). Translated by Nigel Griffin. Penguin Classics; 1st ed edition (September 8, 1999) ISBN 0140445625
- Bartolomé de las Casas, The Devastation of the Indies, a Brief Account. Translated gross Herma Briffault. Johns Hopkins Habit Press, Baltimore, 1974. ISBN 0801844304