Domingo de Santo Tomás

Fray Domingo de Santo Tomás, O.P. (* 1499 in Seville, † February 28, 1570 in La Plata, Bolivia) was a Spanish Dominican monk and areas addressing the Quechua language linguist in the Viceroyalty of Peru.

As a professor at the University of San Marcos of Lima ( today Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos ), he established the Department of Quechua.

Works

• Grammatica o Arte de la lengua general de los Indios de los Reynos del Peru (Valladolid, 1560).
• Lexicon o Vocabulario de la lengua general del PERV ( 1560).
• Platica para todos los Indios ( 1560)

• Dominican brother
• Linguist
• University teachers (Lima )
• Spaniard
• Peruvian
• Born in 1499
• Died in 1570
• Man