BURRIEL, ANDRÉS MARCO. - Spanish Jesuit, b. at Buenache de Alarcón in 1719, d. there in 1762. He taught rhetoric and philosophy in the colleges of the Society and intended to set out for California in fulfillment of a vow-mandate, when he was instead called to the archive of the cathedral of Toledo (1789).

This appointment offered him the opportunity to become a distinguished paleographer and to write the highly esteemed Paleografía española, que contiene todos los modos que ha habido de escribir en España, etc. (Madrid 1758); he transcribed about 2,000 documents, gathered an exceedingly abundant harvest of information and published works of great value on various subjects (lives of kings, the Order of the Golden Fleece, the conquest of America, archaeology, liturgy, etc.). He is cited among the men of letters whose works are authoritative for the language. Of great interest is his epistolary correspondence with the scholars of his time.

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BIBL.: Collección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España, XIII, Madrid 1848, pp. 289-301; J. Hurtado y de la Serna and A. González Palencia, Historia de la literatura española, Madrid 1932, pp. 754-55; L. Koch, Jesuiten-Lexikon, Paderborn 1934, col. 280; A. De Bil, s. v. in DHG, X, col. 1388.

Luigi Berra

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