Josefina Muriel

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Native name
Josefina Muriel de la Torre
BornFebruary 2, 1918
bibliophile
LanguageSpanish
NationalityMexican
Alma materNational Autonomous University of Mexico
Period20th and 21st centuries
GenreHistory
Notable awardsOrder of Isabella the Catholic by the government of Spain, (1966)

Josefina Muriel de la Torre (February 2, 1918 in

bibliophile, and academic. She specialized in the history of the feminine and religious world of the time of New Spain.[1] She was awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic
by the government of Spain in 1966.

Education

She obtained a master's degree and a doctorate from the

Antonio Caso, Ignacio Dávila Garibi, Rafael Heliodoro Valle, Rafael García Granados and Manuel Toussaint among others.[2]

She was awarded a scholarship in 1947 and 1949 by the government of Spain, conducting studies and research at the

Philosophy of History, Hispano-American Art and Castilian Literature.[3]

Distinctions

She was an Emeritus Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research of the UNAM and was interim director for three periods. She was a level III researcher of the

Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country in 1995. She was founder and member of the Mexican Society of Bibliophiles in 2007.[4]

Awards

  • Order of Isabella the Catholic by the government of Spain in 1966.
  • Emeritus Researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1990.
  • Medal for 45 years of academic services by the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1996.
  • Medal of Historical Merit – Captain Alonso de León by the Neolonese Society of History, Geography and Statistics in 1996.
  • Lady of History Prize in 1998.
  • United Mexico Foundation Award in 2002.
  • Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz Award in 2003.[4]

Publications

She wrote almost twenty books, eighty book chapters, forty monographs, articles in Mexican magazines and in Spanish magazines.[5] Her works include:

  • Conventos de monjas en la Nueva España (1946). (Nuns' Convents in New Spain)
  • Retratos de monjas (1952). (Portraits of nuns)
  • La sociedad novohispana y sus colegios de niñas. I. Fundaciones del siglo XVI (1955). (The society of New Spain and its schools for girls. I. Foundations of the 16th century)
  • La sociedad novohispana y sus colegios de niñas. II. Fundaciones de los siglos XVII, XVIII y XIX (2005). (The society of New Spain and its schools for girls. II. Foundations of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries)
  • Hospitales de la Nueva España (1956). (Hospitals of New Spain)
  • Las indias caciques de Corpus Christi (1963). (The Indian chiefs of Corpus Christi)
  • Los recogimientos de mujeres. Respuesta a una problemática social novohispana (1974). (The recollections of women. Response to a social problem in New Spain)
  • Cultura femenina novohispana (1982). (Novohispanic feminine culture)
  • Los vascos en México y su Colegio de las Vizcaínas (1987). (The Basques in Mexico and their Colegio de las Vizcainas)
  • Las mujeres de Hispanoamérica en la época colonial (1992). (The women of Latin America in the colonial era)
  • Crónica del Real Colegio de Santa Rosa de Viterbo (1996).[1] (Chronicle of the Royal College of Santa Rosa de Viterbo)
  • La música en las Instituciones Femeninas Novohispanas (2009). (Music in the Novohispanic Women's Institutions)

References

  1. ^ a b "Josefina Muriel (1918–2008)" (PDF). Academia Mexicana de la Historia. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 22, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2009.
  2. ^ UNAM Op.cit. p.225
  3. ^ "Josefina Muriel de la Torre (1918–2008)". Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Archived from the original on June 20, 2009. Retrieved December 14, 2009.
  4. ^ a b "Curriculum vitae Josefina Muriel" (PDF). Academia Mexicana de la Historia. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 11, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2009.
  5. ^ UNAM. «Humanindex». Consultado el 25 de marzo de 2014.

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