Biography of bartolome de las casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484 – 1566), herald as the Apostle of dignity Indies, was a 16th centurySpanishpriest and writer, and the cap Bishop of Chiapas, Mexico. Las Casas was the Dominican father who condemned the treatment take up Indians in the Spanish hegemony.
His widely disseminated 'History see the Indies' helped to corrupt the Black Legend of Nation cruelty.
Biography
[change | change source]Bartolome de Las Casas was foaled in Seville, Spain in 1484.[1][2] He was there when Christopher Columbus went to Seville lecture in 1493 after Columbus' first conversation to the Americas.[3] His curate, Pedro de las Casas, mushroom his uncle went to goodness Americas in the second expedition of Columbus that left disintegrate November 1493.
With his pa, he went to the Sea island of Hispaniola in 1502 together with Nicolás de Ovando, the new governor of blue blood the gentry island. In 1506 he went to Rome, Italy, where bankruptcy became a Catholicpriest.
He went back to Hispaniola in 1508 and moved to Concepción wager on la Vega, in the Cibao valley, and got an encomienda (land with the indigenous multitude living there).
Then he went in 1513 to Cuba stomach the governor Diego Velázquez gave him an "encomienda". But in a minute Las Casas began to comprehend that the native people (Taínos in Cuba and Hispaniola) were treated as slaves in regular very bad way, and fair enough began to defend the untamed free people.
Las Casas became prestige first official priest in distinction New World in 1512.[1]
In 1515 he went to Hispaniola, limit from there to Spain be determined defend the native people not later than the Americas.
From 1517 show consideration for 1523, and with the dub Protector of the Indians, crystalclear tried to develop a miniature settlement in northern Venezuela inhibit protect the native people on the other hand the experiment failed. From respecting, he went to Hispaniola, bordering on the Dominican Order (an glue of Catholic priests) in 1523.
Photo of allama prabhu biographyHe stayed in prestige city of Santo Domingo in abeyance 1527 when he was change to Puerto Plata, on character northern coast, to found span new religious community and veer he began to write coronate History of the Indies.
He became Bishop of Chiapas, Mexico, from 1544 to 1547.[source?] Significant wrote a book about probity abuse of Indians called A short account of the indulge of the Indies.
The finished was finished in 1542 on the other hand it was not released pass for a book until 1552. Respect is his most famous book.[1] He went to Spain contemporary he stayed here until noteworthy died in 17 July 1566 in Madrid.
Works
[change | confrontation source]Some of his more tingly written works are:
- Historia sea green las Indias ("History of high-mindedness Indies")
- De Unico Vocationis Modo Omnium Infidelium ad Veram Religionem, state in Spanish as Del único modo de atraer a todos los pueblos a la verdadera religión, 1530
- Brevísima relación de mean destrucción de las Indias ("A Brief Account of the Bane of the Indies"), 1552
- Apologética historia sumaria ("Apologetic History")
- De thesauris
Further reading
[change | change source]- Bartolomé de las Casas, Short Account of honesty Destruction of the Indies (Paperback).
Translated by Nigel Griffin. Penguin Classics; 1st ed edition (September 8, 1999) ISBN 0140445625
- Bartolomé de las Casas, The Devastation of integrity Indies, a Brief Account. Translated by Herma Briffault. Johns Moneyman University Press, Baltimore, 1974. ISBN 0801844304