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 leave for California in fulfilment of a vow-obligation, when he was instead summoned to the archive of Toledo Cathedral (1789).
This appointment gave him the opportunity to become an eminent palaeographer and to write the highly esteemed Paleografia 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 body 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 numbered among the men of letters whose works are authoritative in matters of language. Of great interest is his epistolary correspondence with the scholars of his time.