Ángel María Garibay K., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ángel María Garibay K.

Mexican Mesoamericanist Holi

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1892

Place of Birth: Toluca, México, Mexico

Date of Death: 19-Oct-1967

Profession: poet, Catholic priest, translator, linguist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Fray Ángel María Garibay Kintana (18 June 1892 – 19 October 1967) was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest, philologist, linguist, historian, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, specifically of the Nahua peoples of the central Mexican highlands.
He is particularly noted for his studies and translations of conquest-era primary source documents written in Classical Nahuatl, the lingua franca of Postclassic central Mexico and the then-dominant Aztec empire.
Alongside his former student Miguel León-Portilla, Garibay ranks as one of the pre-eminent Mexican authorities on the Nahuatl language and its literary heritage, and as one who has made a significant contribution towards the promotion and preservation of the indigenous cultures and languages of Mexico.Garibay and León-Portilla published texts and scholarly analysis for the study of classical Nahuatl literature, founded the journal Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl, and created the Seminario de Cultura Náhuatl.
In the seminar, they taught fundamentals of literature and linguistics to Nahuas, who went on to create a modern Nahuatl literature.
In recent years, the relationship between the development of Nahuatl literature as a field and the ideology of indigenismo and mestizaje has been critically examined.