Joseph A. Lopez
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19th President of Georgetown College | |
In office January 1, 1840 – May 1, 1840 | |
Preceded by | William McSherry |
Succeeded by | James A. Ryder |
Personal details | |
Born | José Antonio López October 4, 1779 New Spain |
Died | October 5, 1841 St. Inigoes, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 62)
Resting place | St. Ignatius Church |
Alma mater | |
Joseph Anton Lopez
Following Iturbide's execution in 1824, Lopez moved to the United States with the exiled Empress Ana María and her children and settled in
Early life
José Antonio López was born on October 4, 1779, in Cotija, Michoacán, in New Spain, located today in Mexico.[2] Born to a family of ranchers,[1] he had a distinguished lineage.[3] López attended first the Colegio de San Nicolás, and then the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, where he received a bachelor's degree in canon law. He was then put in charge of the local church in Peribán, Michoacán. Later in life, López related that when the first leader of the Mexican War of Independence, Miguel Hidalgo, was traveling through Michoacán in 1810, López unsuccessfully tried to arrest him, and then fled to Valladolid. There, he became acquainted with Ana María Huarte, the wife of the future Emperor of Mexico, Agustín de Iturbide. As a result of his familiarity with Huarte, López was appointed chaplain to Iturbide's counter-revolutionary army, and later the interim priest in Tingüindín, Michoacán.[1]
Chaplain to the Iturbides
When Iturbide was relieved of command by the
López became the chaplain to the Iturbide family and tutored one of the children, Agustín Jerónimo. Eventually, he was placed in charge of the education of all the princes in Mexico in July 1822 by the Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs and wrote a curriculum titled Método y reglamento de instrucción de los príncipes mexicanos. Modeled on the educational curriculum of Spanish princes, this manual was not published due to military unrest.[1] His curriculum viewed favorably a strong monarchy and a prominent role for the imperial family in politics, putting it somewhat at odds with the newly established constitutional monarchy that shared political power with a representative legislature.[4]
Upon Iturbide's exile from Mexico in 1823, López accompanied the imperial entourage, including the emperor's eight children, to
Move to the United States
When Iturbide was executed in Mexico in 1824, his widow,
López was
Georgetown College
Following the death of
A week before his death, the Jesuits tending to Lopez feared that a coffin would not be ready for him in time; upon learning this, Lopez told them not to worry because he would not die until Saturday. True to his prediction,[18] on October 5, 1841, he died in St. Inigoes, where he was buried in Chapel Field. Eventually, all the graves there were reinterred in the cemetery adjoining St. Ignatius Church in the same village.[20]
Notes
- ^ Some sources identify Lopez's first name as Josep.[1]
- ^ Georgetown was a separately chartered city within the District of Columbia until the consolidation of the district's governments into a single entity, Washington, D.C., with the Organic Act of 1871.[8]
- Archdiocese of Washington in 1939.[11]
- ^ Other sources describe Lopez as the first Hispanic president of an American university.[10]
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h Ávila Rueda, Alfredo (March 12, 2019). "Josep Lopez, ¿Quién fue Este Sacerdote que Estuvo a Punto de Capturar a Miguel Hidalgo?" [Joseph Lopez, Who Was This Priest Who was About to Capture Miguel Hidalgo?]. Relatos e Historias en Mexico (in Spanish). Archived from the original on April 29, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
- ^ Mendizabal 1972, p. 21
- ^ a b Easby-Smith 1907, p. 75
- ^ López 2012, p. 178
- ^ Bancroft 1885, p. 804
- ^ Bancroft 1885, pp. 806–807
- ^ a b c d e Ryan 1904, p. 16
- ^ Dodd 1909, p. 40
- ^ Iturbide 1916, p. 39
- ^ a b Miranda, Manuel (November 7, 2000). "Georgetown Has Rich Hispanic Heritage". The Hoya. Archived from the original on September 18, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
- ^ "Timeline for Archdiocese of Washington". Catholic Standard. Archdiocese of Washington. September 24, 2014. Archived from the original on August 31, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
- ^ Devitt 1933, p. 316
- ^ Shea 1891, p. 123
- ^ Devitt 1933, pp. 316–317
- ^ Iturbide 1916, p. 40
- ^ Curran 1993, p. 121
- ^ a b c d Shea 1891, p. 124
- ^ a b Ryan 1904, p. 17
- ^ Senior Class of Georgetown University 1939, p. 30
- ^ Devitt 1931, p. 225
Sources
- from the original on April 29, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2020 – via Google Books.
- Curran, Robert Emmett (1993). The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University: From Academy to University, 1789–1889. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C.: ISBN 978-0-87840-485-8. Archived from the original on September 18, 2019. Retrieved September 17, 2019 – via Google Books.
- Devitt, Edward I. (June 1931). "History of the Maryland-New York Province: Part I, St. Inigoes, St. Mary's County, Maryland" (PDF). Woodstock Letters. 60 (2): 199–226. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 28, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020 – via Jesuit Archives.
- Devitt, Edward I. (October 1933). "History of the Maryland-New York Province: IX, The Province in the Year 1833" (PDF). Woodstock Letters. 62 (3): 309–348. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 10, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020 – via Jesuit Archives.
- Dodd, Walter Farleigh (1909). The Government of the District of Columbia: A Study in Federal and Municipal Administration. Washington, D.C.: John Byrne & Co. p. 40. .
- Easby-Smith, James Stanislaus (1907). Georgetown University in the District of Columbia, 1789–1907. Vol. 1. New York: Lewis Publishing Company. OCLC 633425041. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved January 30, 2019 – via Google Books.
- JSTOR 44208365.
- Mendizabal, Rufo (1972). Catalogus Defunctorum: Numerical Range 0.1 through 1.600 (in Latin). Rome: Jesuit Archives: Central United States. pp. 1–29. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- López, José Antonio (December 2012). "Método y reglamento de instrucción de los príncipes mexicanos, 1822" [Method and regulation of instruction of the Mexican princes, 1822]. Estudios de historia moderna y contemporánea de México (in Spanish) (44): 175–194. .
- Ryan, John J. (May 1904). "Our Scholasticate – An Account of its Growth and History to the Opening of Woodstock, 1805–1869" (PDF). Woodstock Letters. 33 (1): 16–17. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 10, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020 – via Jesuit Archives.
- Senior Class of Georgetown University (1939). Domesday booke 1939. hdl:10822/559454.
- OCLC 960066298. Archived from the original on January 30, 2019. Retrieved January 30, 2019 – via Google Books.
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