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Juan de la Anunciación

Mexican friar and linguist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ15461286 ↗
Source-derived summary

Juan de la Anunciación (Born at Granada in Spain, probably 1514; died 1594) was an Augustinian friar who traveled to Mexico as a missionary and who published sermons and a doctrine in the Nahuatl language.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Juan de la Anunciación” as mexican friar and linguist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1514, 1594—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1514-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Juan, Anunciación and Mexican can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as mexican friar and linguist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15461286. VIAF identifies the subject as 2811177. The Library of Congress control number is nr2002024945. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1514 and 1594.

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This entry incorporates text from “Juan de la Anunciación” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.