biography
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Huarte de San Juan, Juan
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pronunciation:
[ooah(r)tay thay s
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| male
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| lived:
| (1529–88)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, with an interest in physiology, medicine, and psychology, born in Saint Jean-Pied-de-Port, SW France. His family lived in the Kingdom of Navarra until its dissolution in 1530, when he emigrated to the S, establishing himself in Baeza, where he studied art. Later, in Alcalá de Henares, he qualified as a doctor of medicine (1559) after six years' training under the most important figures in medical humanism. His treatise Examen de los ingenios para las ciencias (1575) was translated into French (1580) and Italian (1582) and led to its inclusion in the list of prohibited books, first in Portugal (1581) and later in Spain (1583, 1584). He dedicated the last years of his life to adapting his work to the exigencies of the Inquisitorial Tribunal, omitting certain parts, and amplifying it significantly to maintain points of view in contradiction to those expressed in the original edition. |
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