Category
page 1Historians of Mesoamerica
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (1474–1566)
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)

Bernardino de Sahagún
ca. 1499-1590, Spanish mesoamericanist, evangelizador, fraile franciscano, misionero

William Hickling Prescott
American historian and Hispanist (1796–1859)
Diego de Landa
Spanish Bishop of Yucatán (1524-1579)
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
Italo-Spanish historian and diplomat
Francisco López de Gómara
Spanish historian
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés
Spanish naturalist and historian (1478–1557)
Diego Durán
Dominican friar (1537-1588)
Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
Mexican humanist and writer (1645-1700)
Toribio de Benavente
Spanish Friar Minor, Catholic missionar in Mexico, Novohispanic mesoamericanist

Miguel León Portilla
Mexican academic (1926–2019)
Leonardo López Luján
Archaeologist
Antonio de Herrera
Spanish historian
Francisco Javier Clavijero
mesoamericanist, 1731-1787
Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
French Mesoamericanist (1814–1874)
Chimalpahin
Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (1579, Amecameca, Chalco1660, Mexico City), usually referred to simply as Chimalpahin or Chimalpain, was a Nahua annalist from Chalco. His Nahuatl names () mean "Runs Swiftly with a Shield" and "Rising Eagle", respectively, and he claimed descent from the lords of Tenango-Amecameca-Chalco. He was the grandson of the late Don Domingo Hernández Ayopochtzin, a seventh-generation descendant of the founding king of the polity. Don Domingo was learned and esteemed, especially for his education and his record-keeping skills in the anc
Daniel Garrison Brinton
American archaeologist and ethnologist (1837-1899)
Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl
Novohispanic Mexican historian (1569-1650)
Gemelli Careri
Italian explorer
Gerónimo de Mendieta
franciscan missionary and historian
Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc
Nahua noble and historian
José Fernando Ramírez
Mexican historian and politician in the 19th century
Carlos María de Bustamante
Mexican politician
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Mexican archaeologist
Francisco Cervantes de Salazar
Spanish writer
Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci
Italian Mesoamericanist
Joaquín García Icazbalceta
Mexican academic (1825-1894)
Alfredo López Austin
Mexican Mesoamericanist (1936–2021)
Nigel Davies
British anthropologist and historian (1920-2004)
Adrián Recinos
Guatemalan scholar and diplomat (1886–1962)
Alfredo Chavero
Mexican politician, archaeologist and playwright (1841–1906)
Ángel María Garibay K.
Mexican Mesoamericanist Holi (1892–1967)

Diego Muñoz Camargo
Mexican historian
Juan Bautista Pomar
mesoamericanist
Galina Yershova
Soviet and Russian academic
James Lockhart
American historian of Latin America (1933–2014)
Inga Clendinnen
Australian historian
Francisco del Paso y Troncoso
Mexican Mesoamericanist (1842-1916)
Charles Gibson
American Mesoamericanist
Antonio Valeriano
nahua writer, Mexican governor (1520-1605)
Manuel Orozco y Berra
Mexican historian (1816-1881)
David Carrasco
American Mesoamericanist
Antonio del Rincón
Mexican academic

Rafael García Granados
Mexican historian (1893–1956)
Primo Feliciano Velázquez
Mexican historian, lawyer, journalist (1860–1953)