| LC control no. | n 80063275 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | León Portilla, Miguel |
| Variant(s) | Portilla, Miguel León |
| Birth date | 1926-02-22 |
| Death date | 2019-10-01 |
| Place of birth | Mexico City (Mexico) |
| Place of death | Mexico City (Mexico) |
| Affiliation | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas |
| Profession or occupation | Historians Philosophers Latin Americanists Indianists Literary historians |
| Found in | Inter-American Indian Institute. Indices de América indígena y Boletín indigenista. Testimonios de la antigua palabra, 1990: t.p. (Miguel León-Portilla) Info. converted from 678, 20120924 (b. 2/22/26 in Mexico City) El país WWW site, viewed Oct. 3, 2019 (in obituary dated Oct. 2, 2019: the historian and philosopher Miguel León-Portilla died Tuesday [Oct. 1, 2019] in Mexico City at age 93; his research and his tutelary figure in Mexican academia have been key pieces in the deepening and valuing of the richness and complexity of studies of preshispanic cultures; expert on Nahuatl; his field of study also includes the literature of the different Mesoamerican languages; director of the Inst. de Investigaciones Históricas of UNAM) |
| Associated language | spa |
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