Baltasar Teles
Baltasar Teles SJ (11 January 1596 – 20 April 1675), was a Portuguese Roman Catholic priest, historian and philosopher.
Biography
Baltasar Teles was born in Lisbon, the son of João Teles and D. Francisca de Morais (great-grandson of Francisco de Moraes). He joined the Society of Jesus on March 24, 1610.[1] Teles was a professor in the Jesuit colleges of Évora, Coimbra, Braga, and Lisbon, where he taught Rhetoric and Speculative and Moral Theology.[2] He was rector of the College of Santo Antão, rector of the College of S. Patrício (of the Irish) and prepost of the House of São Roque.
In 1660, Telles published a history of Ethiopia, and gave a description of white Ethiopians. Thus, he is often credited as the first to describe albinos (a term derived from the Latin albus for white). In fact, Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola had already described white children born to black parents in New Guinea in his History of the Conquest of the Moluccas in 1609. Argensola is also the first to report the use of the term Albiños.
Works
- História Geral da Etiópia a Alta (1660)
- Summa universae philosophie (1642; 2 volumes)
- Crónica da Companhia de Jesus na Província de Portugal e do Que Fizeram nas Conquistas deste Reino os Religiosos que na mesma Província Entraram, nos Anos em Que Viveu Santo Inácio de Loiola (1645–1647; 2 volumes)
Notes
References
- Gonçalves, Nuno da Silva (2001). "Baltasar Teles, Cronista da Companhia de Jesus." In: Quando os Frades Faziam História: de Marcos de Lisboa a Simão de Vasconcelos. Porto: Centro Interuniversitário de História da Espiritualidade, pp. 95–100.
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