Also known as:
Spanish: Christoval de Acugna, Christoval de Acuña;
Latin: Christophorus de Acuña;
Portuguese: Cristóvão de Acunha
ACUÑA, CRISTÓBAL de. - Jesuit missionary and explorer. Born at Burgos around 1597, he entered the novitiate of Villagarcía in 1612. In 1620 he passed to the vice-province of Chile, then, in 1634, to that of Ecuador, where he founded the college of Cuenca. In 1639 took place the famous exploration to which his name remains attached: charged by the viceroy to accompany, with Fr. Artieda, the Portuguese captain Pedro Teixeira, sent back along the Amazon River, he methodically studied its entire course (except the upper stretch, which he mistook for the Rio Napo). From Pará he continued on to Spain, to give an account to the Court of his discoveries.
He published at Madrid in 1641 his report Nuevo descubrimiento del Gran Río de las Amazonas (reprinted in 1891 at Madrid in the Colección de libros que tratan de América raros o curiosos; translated into French in 1656, 1682, 1716; into English in 1661, 1698, 1859; into German in 1758, etc.). Nicolas Sanson drew shortly afterward a map of the river according to A.'s data (Paris 1680). The latter, after having been procurator of his province at Madrid and at Rome, returned to America (after 1651), first to the New Kingdom (Colombia), then, after 1659, to Peru. He died at Lima on 13 Jan. 1670.
Bibliography7 worksSommervogel, I, coll. 39-42; VIII, col. 1569; E. Rivière, Additions et corrections, pp. 5-6; E. de Uriarte-M. Lecina, Bibl. de écritures de
BIBL.: Sommervogel, I, coll. 39-42; VIII, col. 1569; E. Rivière, Additions et corrections, pp. 5-6; E. de Uriarte-M. Lecina, Bibl. de écritures de la Comp. de Jesús, 2nd España, I, Madrid 1904, pp. 32-34; Streit, Bibl., II, pp. 474-76; E. Torres Saldanando, Los antiguos Jesuitas del Perú, Lima 1882, pp. 282-86; J. Chantre y Herrera, Historia de las Misiones de la Comp. de Jesús en el Marañon español, Madrid 1901, pp. 49-58.
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Acuña, cristóbal de.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 260. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/acuna-cristobal-de.
MLA
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Acuña, cristóbal de.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 260. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/acuna-cristobal-de.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_acuna_cristobal_de,
author = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
title = {Acuña, cristóbal de},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {260},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/acuna-cristobal-de}
}
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