Josefina Muriel de la Torre (February 2, 1918 in

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– January 30, 2008) was a Mexican writer, historian, researcher,

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, and academic. She specialized in the history of the feminine and religious world of the time of New Spain. She was awarded the

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by the government of Spain in 1966.

Education

She obtained a master's degree and a doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1946. She was a student of Pablo Martínez del Río, Federico Gómez de Orozco,

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, Ignacio Dávila Garibi, Rafael Heliodoro Valle, Rafael García Granados and Manuel Toussaint among others. She was awarded a scholarship in 1947 and 1949 by the government of Spain, conducting studies and research at the

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, as well as continuing her studies at the

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in the field of Spanish Art History and at the

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in the fields of Philosophy of History, Hispano-American Art and Castilian Literature.

Distinctions

She was an Emeritus Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research of the UNAM and was interim director for three periods. She was a level III researcher of the

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(National System of Researchers). She was director of the Historical Archive of the

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from 1976 to 1999. She joined the

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as a full member in 1993, occupying seat 27. She was a member of the Hispano-American Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters since 1993. She was named a full member of the

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in 1995. She was founder and member of the Mexican Society of Bibliophiles in 2007.

Awards

by the government of Spain in 1966. * Emeritus Researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1990. * Medal for 45 years of academic services by the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1996. * Medal of Historical Merit – Captain Alonso de León by the Neolonese Society of History, Geography and Statistics in 1996. * Lady of History Prize in 1998. * United Mexico Foundation Award in 2002. * Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz Award in 2003.

Publications

She wrote almost twenty books, eighty book chapters, forty monographs, articles in Mexican magazines and in Spanish magazines.UNAM. «Humanindex». Consultado el 25 de marzo de 2014. Her works include: * ''Conventos de monjas en la Nueva España'' (1946). (Nuns' Convents in New Spain) * ''Retratos de monjas'' (1952). (Portraits of nuns) * ''La sociedad novohispana y sus colegios de niñas. I. Fundaciones del siglo XVI'' (1955). (The society of New Spain and its schools for girls. I. Foundations of the 16th century) * ''La sociedad novohispana y sus colegios de niñas. II. Fundaciones de los siglos XVII, XVIII y XIX'' (2005). (The society of New Spain and its schools for girls. II. Foundations of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) * ''Hospitales de la Nueva España'' (1956). (Hospitals of New Spain) * ''Las indias caciques de Corpus Christi'' (1963). (The Indian chiefs of Corpus Christi) * ''Los recogimientos de mujeres. Respuesta a una problemática social novohispana'' (1974). (The recollections of women. Response to a social problem in New Spain) * ''Cultura femenina novohispana'' (1982). (Novohispanic feminine culture) * ''Los vascos en México y su Colegio de las Vizcaínas'' (1987). (The Basques in Mexico and their Colegio de las Vizcainas) * ''Las mujeres de Hispanoamérica en la época colonial'' (1992). (The women of Latin America in the colonial era) * ''Crónica del Real Colegio de Santa Rosa de Viterbo'' (1996). (Chronicle of the Royal College of Santa Rosa de Viterbo) * ''La música en las Instituciones Femeninas Novohispanas (2009). (Music in the Novohispanic Women's Institutions)

References

Bibliography

* National Autonomous University of Mexico; Perez San Vicente, Guadalupe (1992)
"Josefina Muriel de la Torre"
General Directorate of Academic Personnel Affairs, ed. Our teachers. Mexico: National Autonomous University of Mexico. pp. 225–227. ISBN 968-36-2299-2. Retrieved December 14, 2009.

External links

* Guedea, Virginia
"In memoriam Josefina Muriel de González Mariscal"
ejournal UNAM. Retrieved December 14, 2009. {{DEFAULTSORT:Muriel, Josefina 1918 births 2008 deaths Mexican women writers Writers from Mexico City Women historians 20th-century women 21st-century women