# Juan Coronel

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**Juan Coronel** (1569 in Spain – 1651 at [Mérida](/source/M%C3%A9rida,_Yucat%C3%A1n), Mexico) was a Spanish [Franciscan](/source/Franciscan) missionary.

## Life

He made his academic studies at the [University of Alcalá de Henares](/source/University_of_Alcal%C3%A1_de_Henares), and joined the Franciscans of the province of [Castile](/source/Castile_(historical_region)). He was sent to [Yucatán](/source/Yucat%C3%A1n_(state)), Mexico, in 1590, and there so familiarized himself with the [Maya language](/source/Maya_language) that he was able to teach it, the historian [Diego López de Cogolludo](/source/Diego_L%C3%B3pez_de_Cogolludo) being one of his pupils.

Coronel was one of the foremost Christian teachers in Yucatán in the seventeenth century. He was a strict [Observantine](/source/Observantine) for sixty-seven years, always travelling barefooted. His austerity impeded his election to the office of Provincial of the Franciscan Order in Yucatán.

## Works

Cogolludo says he wrote a Maya grammar (*Arte*) that was printed in Mexico, of which, however, nothing else is known. A catechism in Maya: "Doctrina cristiana en lengua Maya", was published in Mexico in 1620, and in the same year there appeared in print, also in Mexico, "Discursos predicables y tratados espirituales en lengua Maya". Both are exceedingly rare.

## References

**Attribution**

- The entry cites: - [Diego López de Cogolludo](/source/Diego_L%C3%B3pez_de_Cogolludo), *Historia de Yucatán* (Madrid, 1688; Mérida, 1842); - [Beristain](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Mariano_Beristain), *Biblioteca hispano-americana* (Mexico, 1816; Amecameca, 1883); - [Ephraim George Squier](/source/Ephraim_George_Squier), *Monograph of Authors who have Written on the Languages of Central America* (New York, 1861); he merely copies Beristain.

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