Bernardin de Sahagun
Bernardin de Sahagun
a Spanish Franciscan, lived in the second half of the 16th century. He spent many years in the West Indies and Mexico, and composed a grammar and dictionary of the language of the latter country, and many other works for the use of the missionaries and native Christians. He wrote in Spanish a history of the religion, the government, and the customs of the natives of the West Indies, and an essay on the conquest of New Spain or Mexico. Hoefer, Biog. Generale, 5, 606.