Domingo de Santo Tomás

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Domingo de Santo Tomás.

Fray Domingo de Santo Tomás, OP (* 1499 in Seville ; † 28. February 1570 in La Plata , Bolivia ) was a Spanish Dominican and with the Quechua areas addressing -Language linguists in the Viceroyalty of Peru and bishop in what is now Bolivia .

Life

Domingo de Santo Tomás came in 1540 after Peru and founded the convent and the town of Yungay on August 4, 1540. The missionary work of the indigenous population between today's regions La Libertad and Ica is concerned, he learned the Quechua the coastal region of Lima. After successful years as a missionary, he was elected prior of the Convent of the Holy Rosary (Prior del Convento del Santísimo Rosario) in Lima on June 24, 1545 . In 1560 he published the Grammatica o Arte de la lengua general de los Indios de los Reynos del Perú in Valladolid , the first book ever printed in Quechua. In the same year his Lexicón o Vocabulario de la lengua general del PERV was published. The coastal variant of Quechua presented here differed significantly from the Quechua of the city of Cusco , which was described decades later by Fray Diego González Holguín . As a professor at the University of San Marcos in Lima (today Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos ), he established the chair of Quechua.

On July 6, 1562 he was appointed bishop of La Plata o Charcas and received episcopal ordination on December 26 of the same year by the Archbishop of Lima , Jerónimo de Loaysa OP.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lawrence A. Clayton: Bartolomé de las Casas - A Biography . Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-139-51046-2 , p. 435
personal data
SURNAME Domingo de Santo Tomás
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish missionary in Peru and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 1499
PLACE OF BIRTH Seville
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1570
Place of death Lima