Juan de Velasco

Juan de Velasco and Juan de Velasco y Pérez petrochemicals (* January 6, 1727 in Riobamba, † June 29, 1792 in Faenza ) was a Spanish Jesuit priest. His parents were Juan de Velasco y López de Moncayo and María Pérez petrochemicals.

Biography

Velasco received his primary education at the Jesuit College in Riobamba, before he entered the Seminario de San Luis de Quito in 1743. The following year he became a novice of the Compañía de Jesús de Latacunga, where he took his vows on 23 July 1746. After an earthquake, which drew considerably affected the city in 1747, he turned to Quito to study at the Colegio Máximo philosophy and later at the Universidad de San Gregorio Theology, where he earned his doctorate and was consecrated it in 1753 as a priest.

His work as a priest and lecturer, he began in Cuenca, from where he went to Ibarra and later to Popayán, before he accepted a permanent position at the Real Audiencia de Quito. While he fulfilled his religious duties, he devoted himself to the study and collection of information, data, personal data, languages ​​, legends, customs and traditions of the Reino de Quito great efforts.

In the early morning hours of August 16, 1767 the members of the Compañía de Jesús of Quito were surprisingly informed by the king of Spain decision to refer them from all his dominions. Juan de Velasco left the Spanish territories, together with his companions forever and finally settled down after a long journey on October 24, 1768 in Faenza, Italy, where he restricted in modest circumstances and by a progressive arteriosclerosis and a genetic age deafness until his end of life remained.

Despite these difficulties with great willpower, he took his main work in attack, the Historia del Reino de Quito en la América y crónica de la provincia de la Compañía de Jesús del mismo Reino ( "History of the Reino de Quito in America and chronicle the province of Compañía de Jesús same Empire "). Twenty years of investigation, consultation and systematization of his countless notes formed the structuring and revision of his monumental work, the first of two volumes he sent on 15 March 1789 authorization and publication of Antonio Porlier, member of the Royal Spanish Council. The third volume followed on August 1 of the same year.

Works

His numerous works include:

  • Historia moderna del Reyno de Quito y crónica de la provincia de la Compañía, 1789
  • Relación histórica y apologetica dedicada a Nuestra Señora de la Luz.
  • Tratado de Física.
  • Colección de POESIAS, hechas por un ocioso en la ciudad de Faenza.
  • Carta geográfica del Reino de Quito.
  • Vocabulario de la lengua peruana - quitense, llamada lengua del inga.
  • Three letters to Padre Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro on languages ​​of the indigenous population
  • Many sonnets and tenths
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