Lesley Byrd Simpson

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Lesley Byrd Simpson (born March 21, 1891 in St. Louis (Missouri) , † September 23, 1984 in Berkeley ) was an American historian, Romanist and Hispanist .

Life

Simpson came to Los Angeles in 1905 and studied at Berkeley. During the First World War he was a bomber pilot in France. He received his doctorate in history in 1928 with Herbert Ingram Priestley (1875-1944) with the Hispanic work The Encomienda in New Spain. Forced native labor in the Spanish colonies, 1492-1550 (Berkeley 1929, later subtitle: The beginning of Spanish Mexico , 1950, 1966, 1982; Spanish: Los conquistadores y el indio Americano , Barcelona 1970).

Simpson's university career in Romance studies at the University of California at Berkeley went as follows: 1928 Instructor, 1930 Assistant Professor, 1937 Associate Professor, from 1946 to 1955 Full Professor of Spanish (also dean). He ended the Second World War as a lieutenant colonel.

Works

  • (with Arturo Torres-Rioseco ) El libro de buen humor, New York 1932
  • Studies in the Administration of the Indians in New Spain. I. The laws of burgos of 1512, II. The Civil congregation, III. The Repartimiento system of native labor in New Spain and Guatemala, IV. The emancipation of the Indian slaves and the resettlement of the freedmen, 1548-1553, Berkeley 1934-1940
  • (Ed.) Lope de Vega, La prueba de los amigos, Madrid 1934
  • (Ed. With Marie Hendrick Jessup) Indian tales from Guatemala, New York / Chicago 1936
  • (Translator) California in 1792. The expedition of José Longinos Martinez, San Marino, Cal. 1938
  • (Ed.) Alfonso Martínez de Toledo , Corbacho o Arcipreste de Talavera, Berkeley 1939 (English by the editor: Little sermons on sin. The archpriest of Talavera, Berkeley 1959, 1977)
  • Many Mexicos, Berkeley 1941, 1946, 1957, 1960, 1967 (Spanish: Mexico / Madrid 1977)
  • The writing of history. A dialogue, Berkeley 1947
  • (with Sherburne F. Cook) The population of Central Mexico in the sixteenth century, Berkeley 1948, New York 1978
  • Exploitation of land in central Mexico in the sixteenth century, Berkeley 1952
  • (Translator) Fernando de Rojas , The Celestina. A novel in dialogue, Berkeley 1955
  • (Translator) The poem of the Cid, Berkeley 1957
  • (Ed. And translator) The Laws of Burgos of 1512-1513. Royal Ordinances for the Good Governement and Treatment of the Indians, San Francisco 1960, Westport 1978
  • (Ed. And translator) Journal of José Longinos Martinez. Notes and observations of the naturalist of the botanical expedition in old and new California and the south coast: 1791-1792, San Francisco 1961
  • (Ed. And translator) Cortès. The Life of the Conqueror by his secretary Francisco Lopez de Gomara, Berkeley 1964
  • (Ed. And translator) Ramón Iglesia Parga (1905-1948), Columbus, Cortés, and other essays Berkeley 1969

literature

  • Woodrow Borah: [Obituary], in: Hispanic American Historical Review , 65, 1985, pp. 353-363.

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personal data
SURNAME Simpson, Lesley Byrd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, Romanist, and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis, Missouri
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1984
Place of death Berkeley