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page 1Mesoamericanists from New Spain

Bernardino de Sahagún
ca. 1499-1590, Spanish mesoamericanist, evangelizador, fraile franciscano, misionero
Diego de Landa
Spanish Bishop of Yucatán (1524-1579)
Francisco Hernández de Toledo
Spanish naturalists and physician (1515-1587)
Diego Durán
Dominican friar (1537-1588)
Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
Mexican humanist and writer (1645-1700)
Toribio de Benavente
Spanish Friar Minor, Catholic missionar in Mexico, Novohispanic mesoamericanist
Francisco Javier Clavijero
mesoamericanist, 1731-1787
Alonso de Molina
Mexican Mesoamerican linguist
Chimalpahin
Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (1579, Amecameca, Chalco1660, Mexico City), usually referred to simply as Chimalpahin or Chimalpain, was a Nahua annalist from Chalco. His Nahuatl names () mean "Runs Swiftly with a Shield" and "Rising Eagle", respectively, and he claimed descent from the lords of Tenango-Amecameca-Chalco. He was the grandson of the late Don Domingo Hernández Ayopochtzin, a seventh-generation descendant of the founding king of the polity. Don Domingo was learned and esteemed, especially for his education and his record-keeping skills in the anc
Juan de Torquemada
Spanish scholar 1557-1624
Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl
Novohispanic Mexican historian (1569-1650)
Gerónimo de Mendieta
franciscan missionary and historian
Pedro de Gante
Flemish Catholic missionary and educator
Andrés de Olmos
Mesoamerican linguist
Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc
Nahua noble and historian
Antonio de León y Gama
Mexican anthropologist and astronomer
Francisco Cervantes de Salazar
Spanish writer

Diego Muñoz Camargo
Mexican historian
Juan Bautista Pomar
mesoamericanist
Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán
Guatemalan historian and poet
Antonio Valeriano
nahua writer, Mexican governor (1520-1605)
Antonio del Rincón
Mexican academic