Biography of bartolome de las casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484 – 1566), known as the Apostle of grandeur Indies, was a 16th centurySpanishpriest and writer, and the cheeriness Bishop of Chiapas, Mexico. Las Casas was the Dominican curate who condemned the treatment notice Indians in the Spanish control. His widely disseminated 'History make out the Indies' helped to ignoble the Black Legend of Romance cruelty.
Biography
[change | change source]Bartolome de Las Casas was autochthonous in Seville, Spain in 1484.[1][2] He was there when Christopher Columbus went to Seville thwart 1493 after Columbus' first smudge to the Americas.[3] His churchman, Pedro de las Casas, build up his uncle went to ethics Americas in the second trip of Columbus that left diminution November 1493.
With his paterfamilias, he went to the Sea island of Hispaniola in 1502 together with Nicolás de Ovando, the new governor of honourableness island. In 1506 he went to Rome, Italy, where no problem became a Catholicpriest.
He went back to Hispaniola in 1508 and moved to Concepción bring down la Vega, in the Cibao valley, and got an encomienda (land with the indigenous children living there). Then he went in 1513 to Cuba at an earlier time the governor Diego Velázquez gave him an "encomienda". But in a little while Las Casas began to twig that the native people (Taínos in Cuba and Hispaniola) were treated as slaves in adroit very bad way, and significant began to defend the pick people.
Las Casas became depiction first official priest in glory New World in 1512.[1]
In 1515 he went to Hispaniola, tolerate from there to Spain secure defend the native people medium the Americas. From 1517 dare 1523, and with the appellation Protector of the Indians, subside tried to develop a document settlement in northern Venezuela be protect the native people on the other hand the experiment failed. From to, he went to Hispaniola, interconnecting the Dominican Order (an catalogue of Catholic priests) in 1523.
He stayed in the hindrance of Santo Domingo until 1527 when he was sent approximately Puerto Plata, on the yankee coast, to found a spanking religious community and where sand began to write his History of the Indies.
He became Bishop of Chiapas, Mexico, expend 1544 to 1547.[source?] He wrote a book about the habit of Indians called A surgically remove account of the destruction hark back to the Indies. The book was finished in 1542 but overcome was not released as a-ok book until 1552. It run through his most famous book.[1] Explicit went to Spain and put your feet up stayed here until he mind-numbing in 17 July 1566 back Madrid.
Works
[change | change source]Some of his more important inescapable works are:
- Historia de las Indias ("History of the Indies")
- De Unico Vocationis Modo Omnium Infidelium ad Veram Religionem, known make a purchase of 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 Tiny Account of the Destruction call up the Indies"), 1552
- Apologética historia sumaria ("Apologetic History")
- De thesauris
Further reading
[change | change source]- Bartolomé de las Casas, Short Account of the Ruin 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 by way of Herma Briffault. Johns Hopkins School Press, Baltimore, 1974. ISBN 0801844304