Jacques Lafaye
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Professor Jacques Lafaye, (21 March 1930– ) is a French
historian
who, from the early 1960s has written influentially on cultural and religious Spanish and Latin American history
. His most popular work is Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe written in 1974 regarding the formation of the Mexican National Consciousness and includes a prologue of Octavio Paz
and is regarded as a key stone for the understanding of the contemporary Mexican culture and is regarded as one of the most comprehensive analysis of the colonial period in Mexico.
(1977), has contributed to the understanding of the merging of the Spanish and Mexican Prehispanic cultures. Lafaye has also written on the history of culture in general, including the Greek humanist tradition, the predecessors of the print.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
who, from the early 1960s has written influentially on cultural and religious Spanish and Latin American history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
. His most popular work is Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe written in 1974 regarding the formation of the Mexican National Consciousness and includes a prologue of Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.-Early life and writings:...
and is regarded as a key stone for the understanding of the contemporary Mexican culture and is regarded as one of the most comprehensive analysis of the colonial period in Mexico.
Life
Jacques Lafaye has a long trajectory in Spanish and Latin American history. His book Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe. The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness became an important reference for Mexican colonial history. First printed in París by Gallimard Publishers (1974), then in the United States by the Chicago University Press (1976) and in Mexico by Fondo de Cultura EconómicaFondo de Cultura Económica
Fondo de Cultura Económica is the most important publishing house in Mexico and one of the most important ones in Latin America. It was originally established in 1934 by Daniel Cosío Villegas as a way to provide students of economics with books in Spanish on the subject...
(1977), has contributed to the understanding of the merging of the Spanish and Mexican Prehispanic cultures. Lafaye has also written on the history of culture in general, including the Greek humanist tradition, the predecessors of the print.
Career
- Licence and Master of Spanish language and literature. (1951–53).
- Professor agrégé des Lycées. (1954)
- Midship of the French Navy, ORIC (1955–1957)
- Student (Eleve titulaire) of Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (IV y VI Section) (1954-55 y 1957-60)
- Licence of ethnology, Institut d’ethnologie (Musée de l´homme, Paris, 1956–57)
- Maitre-Assistant, Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine des Universités de Paris. (1959–1968)
- Maitre-Assistant, Sorbonne (Assistant of Prof. Robert Ricard, Director of the Institut hispanique) Paris (1960–1962)
- Research Attache, CNRS, (1962–1964)
- Maitre de Conférences, University of Strasbourg, and Director Institut d´español et de portugais, (1964–1968)
- Docteur de III cycle, University of Paris X-Nanterre (1967)
- Member of the Scientific Section of the Casa de Velázquez (Ecole franCaise des Hautes Etudes hispaniques) Madrid (1968–1971)
- Docteur d´Etat, University of Sorbonne-nouvelle (Paris III) (1971)
- Professor, University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) (1972–1990)
- Maitre de Conférences associé, College Erasme (Université Catholique de Louvain), Belgium (1971–1985)
- Chargé de cours, Ecole Normale supérieure (rue d’Ulm) (1971–72)
- Charge de cours, Centre National de Téléenseignement agrégation (1972–1974)
- Director of the Institut d’Etudes ibériques et latinoaméricaines, Sorbonne (1985 a 1988)
- Director of the Centre Universitaire d’études catalanes, Sorbonne (1979–1989)
- Professor and researcher at El Colegio de Jalisco, Guadalajara-Zapopan, México.
- Member of the Sistema nacional de investigadores, México (SNI)(2000, to now)
Visiting Professor
- Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Santander) (1958)
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (1960)
- Brown UniversityBrown UniversityBrown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
(Providence, Rhode Island) (1964) - Member of The Associates of the John Carter Brown LibraryJohn Carter Brown LibraryThe John Carter Brown Library is an independently funded research library of history and the humanities located on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island...
- University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
(1973) - University of AlbertaUniversity of AlbertaThe University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...
(Edmonton, Canada) (1974) - The Woodrow Wilson International Center for ScholarsWoodrow Wilson International Center for ScholarsThe Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , located in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential Memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968...
(Smithsonian Institution), fellow, Washington DC, (1977 and 1989). - The Institute for Advanced StudyInstitute for Advanced StudyThe Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is an independent postgraduate center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It was founded in 1930 by Abraham Flexner...
(Princeton). Guest Member.(1980–1981) - Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
(Cambridge, Mass.), Visiting Professor (1991) - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Visiting Professor (1992)
- Universidad de Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares), Visiting Professor (1992–1993)
- Universitat de ValènciaUniversitat de ValènciaThe University of Valencia is a university located in the Spanish city of Valencia. It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain,and the oldest in the Valencian Community, and is regarded as one of Spain's leading academic institutions...
(research, 1994) - Guest speaker to the Cátedra Julio Cortázar, Universidad de Guadalajara, by Carlos FuentesCarlos FuentesCarlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.-Biography:Fuentes was born in...
and Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García MárquezGabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
(1995) - Universidad de Guadalajara, México, Visiting Professor (1996)
- Universidad de Puerto Rico (Río Piedras), Visiting Professor (2000)
Distinctions
- Prix Lugné Poë, Paris, 1949.
- Prix du duc de Loubat, Paris, 1974.
- Prix Becucci, Louvain, 1976.
- Prix de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris, 1984.
- Associate Member of Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid, 1980.
- Associate Member of Real Academia Española, Madrid, 1981.
- Member of the Publisher Committee of the Boletín de la Real Academia Española, Madrid, 2010.
- Member of The Hispanic Society of America, New York, 1991.
- Commander of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic, Spain, 1985.
- Commander of the Order of Palmes académiques, France, 1994.
- Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, France 1998.
- Insignia of Aguila Azteca Mexico, 2006.
External links
- http://www.ias.edu/people/cos/search?lastname=LafayeList of Members The Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, A Community of Scholars, Princeton.
- http://TheWikipedia page on Our Lady of Guadalupe
- FCE: Autores Author's page on the site of the editorial: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
- El Colegio de Jalisco
- Discutamos México Program by the government of Mexico to create a critical dialogue on the history and culture of Mexico.
- Feria Internacional de Libro de Guadalajara
- http://www.rae.es/rae/gestores/gespub000001.nsf/voTodosporId/F96D5D38806159E9C1257142003FAB29?OpenDocument