Ivan Ratkaj

Croatian Jesuit missionary and explorer (1647-1683) · Historical Figures · Died at 36

Ivan Ratkaj, also Ivan Rattkay, was a Croatian Jesuit missionary, explorer and cartographer. He wrote the first detailed description of the Tarahumara, a Native Mexican people.

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Ivan Ratkaj, memorial portrait with scenes of his life, 1727

Map of the Tarahumara Province titled Mappa circum iacentes regiones (tarahumaras),[3] drawn by Ratkaj in 1683. The original is kept in the central Jesuit archives in Rome.[4]

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