Federico González Suárez

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Federico González Suárez

Federico González Suárez (born April 12, 1844 in Quito , † December 1, 1917 ibid) was an Ecuadorian historian and Archbishop of Quito.

Life

González Suárez received an education at the University of Quito after primary school . He entered the Jesuit order in 1862 and taught literature and philosophy at the Jesuit colleges of Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca . In 1872 he left the Jesuit order and became secretary of the Curia in Cuenca, after he had been ordained a priest there on August 19, 1872. He began to devote himself to historical and archaeological studies. In 1878 he published a study of the Kañari people in the Azuay province , which is considered to be the beginning of archaeological research in Ecuador.

In 1883 he was appointed canon of Quito Cathedral and private secretary to Archbishop Ignacio Ordóñez Lazo. His planned Church History of Ecuador , of which the first and only volume appeared in 1881, expanded into a project for a general history of Ecuador. Starting in 1884, he traveled to Europe (particularly Spain) for archival studies for two years.

The monumental Historia general de la República del Ecuador was published in seven volumes in Quito from 1890 to 1903 and is the main work of the historian Gonzáles Suárez. It also includes an archaeological atlas and a corresponding volume of text.

In 1896 he became Bishop of Ibarra . During the liberal revolution , which gradually limited the power of the Catholic Church in Ecuador from 1895, González Suárez turned against the ultra-conservative forces who were armed in exile from Colombia for the armed struggle against liberalism and forbade the priests to take sides.

In 1905 the Vatican appointed him Archbishop of Quito. He held this highest ecclesiastical office in Ecuador until his death in 1917.

In 1909 he and a group of young intellectuals founded the Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Estudios Históricos (also Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Estudios Históricos Americanos , German about Ecuadorian society for (American) historical research , from 1920: Academia Nacional de Historia ). This circle included Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño, Carlos Manuel Larrea, José Gabriel Navarro and Alfredo Flores y Caamaño. The academy, which had 84 members in 1920, was based mainly on the conservative and Catholic part of society.

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González 'Suárez' extensive work comprises more than 300 writings, including poetry, literary criticism, historical and archaeological works, sermons and theological pamphlets.

Works

  • Estudio histórico sobre los Cañaris, antiguos habitantes de la provincia del Azuay, en la Republica del Ecuador , 1878
  • Historia eclesiastica del Ecuador , Tomo primero 1520–1600 (no longer published), 1881 ( online )
  • Historia general de la República del Ecuador , 7 volumes, 1890–1903 ( online )
  • Recuerdos de un viaje o Cartas acerca de Roma, España, Lourdes y Colombia, 2nd edition, 1901
  • Prehistoria Ecuatoriana , 1904
  • Los aborigenes de Imbabura y del Carchi, 2nd edition, 1908
  • Memorias intimas , 1930
  • Defensa de mi criterio histórico , 1937

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marshall H. Saville: Federico Gonzales Suarez , in: American Anthropologist, Volume 20 (1918), pp. 318-321. [1]
  2. ↑ a b c Bienvenidos al web de Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel - Escritor Ecuatoriano. In: diccionariobiograficoecuador.com. Retrieved December 28, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Guillermo Bustos: The Crafting of Historia Patria in an Andean Nation. Historical Scholarship, Public Commemorations and National Identity in Ecuador (1870-1950). In: handle.net. Retrieved December 28, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Carlos Paladines Escudero: Sentido y trayectoria del pensamiento ecuatoriano , Mexico 1991, p. 295 limited preview in the Google book search
  5. ↑ Mercedes Prieto: Liberalismo y temor: imaginando los sujetos indígenas en el Ecuador, Quito 2004, pp. 93–95, limited preview in the Google book search
  6. ↑ Verity Smith: Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature , Chicago 1997, p. 280 limited preview in the Google book search
  7. ↑ Carlos Escudero Paladines: Sentido y trayectoria del pensamiento ecuatoriano , Mexico in 1991, f S. 251st limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME González Suárez, Federico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ecuadorian historian and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Quito
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1917
Place of death Quito