Antonio Bachiller y Morales
Antonio Bachiller y Morales (1812–1889) was a Cuban lawyer, historian and bibliographer,[1] the "father of Cuban bibliography".[2]
According to the archaeologist L. Antonio Curet, Bachiller y Morales was the first Caribbean person in historiography to adopt the term "Taini" (Taino) to describe the Indigenous peoples of the Greater Antilles, when the term was used in his 1883 book Cuba Primitiva.[3]
Life
Antonio Bachiller y Morales was born to a wealthy family in Havana.[2]
Works
- Apuntes para la historia de las letras y instrucción publica de la isla de Cuba [Notes for a History of Letters and Public Education in Cuba], 3 vols, 1859–1860
- Cuba primitiva, 1880
- Cuba: Monografía histórica ... desde la perdida de la Habana hasta la restauración española, 1883
References
- ↑ José M. Hernández, Bachiller y Morales, Antonio (1812–1889). Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. encyclopedia.com. Accessed 14 February 2018.
- 1 2 "Antonio Bachiller Morales, father of Cuban bibliography", Herald of Library Science, Col. 7. No. 4, pp.270-2
- ↑ Curet, L. Antonio (2014). "The Taino: Phenomena, Concepts, and Terms". ResearchGate. Ethnohistory. Retrieved 2026-04-27.