Bernardino de Sahagún

Bernardino de Sahagún was born around 1499 in Sahagún, in the kingdom of León, whose name he took. He studied at the University of Salamanca and entered the Franciscans there. In 1529 he left for New Spain, where he would live for sixty-one years. He took part in the founding of the college of Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, where he taught, and devoted decades to gathering the knowledge of the ancient Nahuas. He died in Mexico City on 5 February 1590, aged about ninety.

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