Pedro Simón
Spanish anthropologist · Spain · On the map · Academics · Lived 1574 to 1630 · aged 56
Fray Pedro Simón was a Spanish Franciscan friar, professor and chronicler of the indigenous peoples of modern-day Colombia and Venezuela, at the time forming the New Kingdom of Granada.
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About this person
Pedro Simón is one of the most important Muisca scholars whose writings were the basis for later scholars such as Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Alexander von Humboldt, and twenty first-century scholar Javier Ocampo López.
Country
Spain
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1574 to 1630 · aged 56