Ángel María Garibay K.

Fray Ángel María Garibay Kintana (June 18, 1892– October 19,1967) was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest, philologist, linguist, historian, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, specifically of the Nahua peoples of the central Mexican highlands. He is particularly noted for his studies and translations of conquest-era primary source documents written in Classical Nahuatl, the "lingua franca" of Postclassic central Mexico and the then-dominant Aztec empire. Alongside his former student Miguel León-Portilla, Garibay ranks as one of the pre-eminent Mexican authorities on the Nahuatl language and its literary heritage, and as one who has made a significant contribution towards the promotion and preservation of the indigenous cultures and languages of Mexico.

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: cite book |author=aut|Torres, Víctor Manuel Hernández |year=2004 |chapter=Ángel María Garibay Kintana: La vida sencilla |title=Humanismo mexicano del siglo XX, vol. I |chapterurl=http://www.ensayistas.org/critica/generales/C-H/mexico/garibay.htm |format=online edition, Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico |editor=Alberto Saladino García (ed.)|location=Toluca |publisher=Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México |pages=pp.281–292 |isbn=9688358533 |oclc=60346764 es icon