# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juan-gines-de-sepulveda
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:00:23.365Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/juan-gines-de-sepulveda"
name: "Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda"
slug: "juan-gines-de-sepulveda"
description: "Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda was a Spanish humanist, philosopher, and theologian of the Spanish Renaissance. He is mainly known for his participation in a famous debate with Bartolomé de las Casas in Valladolid, Spain, in 1550–1551. The debate centered on the legitimacy of the conquest and colonization of America by the Spanish Empire and on the treatment of the Native Americans. The main philosophical referents of Ginés de Sepúlveda were Aristotle, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Roman law and Christian theology. These influences allowed him to argue for the cultural superiority and domination of the Spanish over the Native Americans during the period of the conquest."
tagline: "Spanish philosopher and theologian (1490-1573)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ES"
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1490"
deathDate: "1573-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump