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Jerónimo Zurita y Castro

1512 - 1580

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Jerónimo (or Gerónimo) de Zurita y Castro or simply Jerónimo (or Gerónimo) de Zurita (1512 – 3 November 1580) was a Spanish historian of the sixteenth century who founded the modern tradition of historical scholarship in Spain. Born at Zaragoza, Kingdom of Aragon, he studied at Alcalá de Henares under the Hellenist Hernán Nuñez. Through the influence of his father, Miguel de Zurita, physician to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, he entered the public service as magistrate at Barbastro, and in 1537 was appointed assistant-secretary of the Inquisition. In 1548 Zurita was nominated official chronicler of the Kingdom of Aragon, and in 1566 Philip II of Spain attached him as secretary to the council of the Inquisition, delegating to him the conduct of all matters sufficiently important to require the king's signature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jerónimo Zurita y Castro is the 274th most popular historian (up from 396th in 2019), the 1,064th most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,440th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Spanish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro ranks 274 out of 561. Before him are Elishe, André Clot, A. H. M. Jones, Maxime Rodinson, Ahmad Kasravi, and Yitzhak Arad. After him are Karl Otfried Müller, John Foxe, Gustav Hugo, Bernard Berenson, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, and Halil İnalcık.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1512, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro ranks 14. Before him are Devlet I Giray, Sibylle of Cleves, Robert Recorde, Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Prospero Fontana, and Diego Laynez. After him are Cristoforo Madruzzo, Galeazzo Alessi, Marcin Kromer, and Kamran Mirza. Among people deceased in 1580, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro ranks 18. Before him are Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine, Inés Suárez, Giovanni Morone, Philippine Welser, Alonso Mudarra, and Marie of Baden-Sponheim. After him is Raphael Holinshed.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro ranks 1,064 out of 3,355. Before him are Julieta Serrano (1933), Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820), Quique Sánchez Flores (1965), Agustín de Betancourt (1758), Ignacio Ramonet (1943), and Felicia of Roucy (1060). After him are Kate Brown (1960), Joseíto (1926), Juan Pizarro (1511), Pedro Salinas (1891), Joan Maragall (1860), and Gonzalo Guerrero (1470).

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Among HISTORIANS In Spain

Among historians born in Spain, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro ranks 6. Before him are Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478), Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi (1213), Francisco López de Gómara (1511), Ibn Hayyan (987), and Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot (1952). After him are Juan de Mariana (1536).

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