García Icazbalceta, Joaquín, 1825-1894

Joaquín García Icazbalceta was a Mexican historian and bibliographer.

From the description of Joaquín García Icazbalceta papers, 1883-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122517509

On May 25, 1577, King Philip II of Spain ordered by royal cédula the preparation of a general description of Spain's holdings in the Indies. Instructions and a questionnaire, issued in 1577 by the Office of the Cronista Mayor-Cosmógrafo, were distributed to local officials in the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru to direct the gathering of information. The questionnaire, comprised of fifty items, was designed to elicit basic information about the nature of the land and the life of its peoples. The replies, known as " relaciones geográficas," were written between 1579 and 1585 and were returned to the Cronista Mayor-Cosmógrafo in Spain by the Council of the Indies.

From the guide to the Collection of Relaciones Geográficas of Mexico and Guatemala 34022876., 1577-1585, (Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin)

Joaquín García Icazbalceta was a Mexican historian and bibliographer.

From the guide to the Joaquín García Icazbalceta papers, 1883-1894, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)

Historian, writer, publisher, and bibliographer. Born 1825 and died 1894 in Mexico City. García collected, edited, and published Spanish colonial manuscripts, wrote biographies and histories, compiled a major bibliography on sixteenth-century Mexican publications, and translated historical works written by his contemporaries. In 1873 he published the periodical, "La Voz de Morelos." In 1875 García was founding member and secretary of the Mexican Academy of Languages; in 1883 he was made director of the same academy.

From the description of Joaquín García Icazbalceta manuscript collection, [1500]-1887 (bulk 1524-1797). (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 33991957

Historian, writer, publisher, and bibliographer. Born 1825 and died 1894 in Mexico City. García collected, edited, and published Spanish colonial manuscripts, wrote biographies and histories, compiled a major bibliography on sixteenth-century Mexican publications, and translated historical works written by his contemporaries. In 1875 García was a founding member and secretary of the Mexican Academy of Languages; in 1883 he was made director of the same academy.

• 21 Aug 1825: born in Mexico City, son of Eusebio García Monasterio, a Spanish merchant, and doña Ana de Icazbalceta y Musitu, Mexican owner of haciendas originally part of Cortés' estates in Valley of Oaxaca
• 1829: goes to Spain with family because of Mexico's political turmoil
• 1833: Mexico's Congress nullifies its decree expelling Spaniards
• 1835: writes, at age 10, a historical diary of his family's life in Spain, Un mes y medio en Chiclana, published privately in 1987
• 1836: Spain recognizes Mexico's independence; García Icazbalceta returns with his family to Mexico
• 1836 - 1840 : with sisters, writes and occasionally prints a small periodical of news and literary items, El Ruiseñor
• 1846: decides to concentrate on history of Mexico; begins his library
• 25 March 1846: U.S. declares war on Mexico García Icazbalceta enlists in the Victoria Regiment
• 8 Sept 1847: takes part in battle of Molino del Rey
• 1847: begins translation of Prescott's History of the Conquest of Perú and of Sancho's Italian version of the same topic
• 2 Feb 1848: Treaty of Guadalupe signed; Icazbalceta resumes fulltime studies
• 1849: publishes Prescott as Historia de la conquista del Perú, Sanchos as Relación de la conquista del Perú
• 1850: 2nd ed of Prescott; Icazbalceta adds as translator's Appendix, 148 pp. on Perú. Icazbalceta becomes a member of the Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística de México.
• 1852: publishes El alma en el templo, popular devotional work, whose sales were used to raise money for the poor; begins a number of biographical sketches for the Diccionario Universal de Historia y Geografia (Mexico, 10 v., 1852-56).
• 1854: publishes Historiadores de Mexico, same Diccionario, v. 4; marries Filomena Pimentel, granddaughter of Count of Heras and sister of Mexican writer Francisco Pimentel
• 12 May 1855: publishes Tipografia mexicana, Diccionario, v. 5
• 1855: publishes Carta de Hernán Cortés al Emperador Carlos V
• 1856: completes biographical entries for Diccionario
• 1858: publishes v. 1, Colección de documentos para la historia de México
• 16 June 1862: wife dies in childbirth
• 1862: loses most of his fortune as a result of the French invasion
• 1863: for friend, José María Andrade, writes official Informe sobre los Establecimientos de Beneficiencia y Corrección de esta Capital, on conditions among the poor; published posthumously, 1907
• 1865: 2nd ed., Carta de Hernán Cortés...
• 1866: publishes v. 2, Colección de Documentos; publishes Apuntes para un catálogo de escritores en lenguas indígenas de América
• 1867: gives up his personal printing press
• 1870: publishes Mendieta's Historia eclesiástica indiana
• 16 Dec 1871: named correspondent of the Real Academia Española
• 9 Feb 1872: named honorary member of the Real Academia de la Historia de Madrid
• 1873: publishes periodical La Voz de Morelos in defense of that state
• 13 April 1875: becomes founding member and Secretary of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
• 1875: publishes, in Spanish, Mexico en 1554: Tres diálogos latinos que Francisco Cervantes Salazar escribió e imprimió...; abstains from public controversy over Spain's contributions to Mexico
• 1877: publishes 2nd edition of Fernán González de Eslava's Coloquios espirituales y sacramentales y poesías sagradas, orig. pub. 1610; publishes 2nd ed of Mendieta's Historia eclesiástica indiana
• 1878: publishes “Las bibliotecas de Eguiara y Beristain,” in Memorias de la Academia Mexicana, v. 1
• 1880: publishes Saavedra Guzmán's El peregrino indiano
• 1881: publishes biography, Don Fray Juan de Zumárraga, Primer Obispo y Arzobispo de México
• 1883: is made Director of the Academia Mexicana until his death; is directed by Labastida, Archbishop of Mexico, to comment as a historian on the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe writes Carta acerca del orígen de la Imagen de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, published posthumously in 1896
• 1885: seized by severe depression at age 60
• 1886: publishes Bibliografía mexicana del siglo XVI; publishes Cartas de religiosos de Nueva España 1539-1594, as the first of 5 volumes of Nueva colección de documentos para la historia de México
• 1887: 3rd ed., Coloquios... de González de Eslava
• 26 Dec 1888: sends letter to Bishop of Yucatán expressing dismay at the furor over his study of the Guadalupe apparition and protesting his own Catholic orthodoxy
• 1888: sends Ms of Motilinia's Memoriales to Paso y Troncoso for his pre-publication comments and suggestions; publishes 2nd ed. of Arte de la lengua maya by Fray Gabriel de San Buenaventura, originally published in 1684; becomes a member of the Academia Mexicana de Historia, affiliated with Spain's Real Academia; is named President of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Mexico
• 1889: publishes Opúsculos inéditos, latinos y castellanos by Father Francisco Javier Alegre; publishes Códice Franciscano del siglo XVI as v. 2 of Nueva colección...
• 25 Jan 1890: Ms of Motilinia returned by Paso y Troncoso, pleading lack of time for its examination; pub. posthumously, 1903
• 1891: v. 3 of Nueva colección published
• 1892: publishes Códice Mendieta: documentos franciscanos siglos XVI y XVII, as vols. 4 and 5 of Nueva colección...; anonymous undated publication of his letter on the Guadalupe apparitions, translated into Latin, appears; unauthorized Latin version is translated immediately into Spanish and published with refutation by Vera. Icazbalceta is named head of Mexican committee for Spain's 400-year Columbus celebration, receives the Gran Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica
• 1893: Vera's Spanish version of García Icazbalceta's letter on the apparitions is republished, with annotations, together with a second edition of the Latin version in Jalpa, still unauthorized
• 1894: García Icazbalceta publishes Carta original del Barón de Humboldt; begins work on Vocabulario de mexicanismos, left unfinished past the letter G; published posthumously in 1899
• 26 Nov 1894: dies of a stroke or cerebral hemorrhage, leaving unpublished minor works on Mexican economic and social history, later printed 1896-99 by V. Agüeros in Biblioteca de Autores Mexicanos

From the guide to the Joaquín García Icazbalceta Manuscript Collection 33991957., 1500-1887, 1524-1797, (Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin)