Andrés González de Barcia

Andrés González de Barcia (died 4 November 1743) was a Spanish historian and one of the founders of the Royal Spanish Academy.^[1][2]

The Most Excellent Andrés González de Barcia
Born	1673 Madrid, Spain
Died	4 November 1743(1743-11-04) (aged 69–70) Madrid, Spain
Seat D of the Real Academia Española
In office 9 July 1713 – 4 November 1743
Preceded by	Seat established
Succeeded by	Antonio Ventura de Prado y Terrín [es]

Works

He published Ensayo cronologico para la historia general de la Florida (Madrid, 1723), and First Historians of the West Indies, issued in sections, and published collectively after his death (3 vols., folio, 1749). He also edited Herrera's Décadas (1725–30); de la Vega, La Florida (1723), Comentarios reales de los Incas (1723); and Torquemada;^[3] Gregorio García's Origen de los indios del Nuevo Mundo (1729); Antonio de Solís, Historia de la conquista de México (1732); Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana (1733). Appearing posthumously are his Fernando de Colón, Historia del Almirante Colón (1749); Hernán Cortés, Cartas de relación (1749); Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias (1749); Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Relación de la jornada que hizo a la Florida con el adelantado Pánfilo de Narvaez (1749); Francisco López de Gómara, Historia de las Indias y de la conquista de México (1749); and Francisco de Xérez, Verdadera relación de la conquista del Perú (1749).^[4]

References

1. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2001, p. 155.
2. "Andrés González de Barcia - letra D". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
3. Andrés González de Barcia, "Proemio" in Juan de Torquemada, Primera (segunda, tercera) parte de los veinte i uno libros rituales i monarchia indiana. Madrid: N. Rodríguez Franco 1723.
4. Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World, p. 371, fn. 88.

Sources

• Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Barcia, Andrés González de" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
• Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge (2007-04-30). "Andrés González de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library (review)". Libraries & the Cultural Record. 42 (1): 90–91. doi:10.1353/lac.2007.0001. ISSN 2166-3033. S2CID 161739078. Retrieved 2018-01-30.