Josefina Muriel de la Torre was a Mexican writer, historian, researcher, bibliophile, and academic.
14 Facts About Josefina Muriel
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Josefina Muriel specialized in the history of the feminine and religious world of the time of New Spain.
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Josefina Muriel was awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic by the government of Spain in 1966.
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Josefina Muriel obtained a master's degree and a doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1946.
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Josefina Muriel was a student of Pablo Martinez del Rio, Federico Gomez de Orozco, Antonio Caso, Ignacio Davila Garibi, Rafael Heliodoro Valle, Rafael Garcia Granados and Manuel Toussaint among others.
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Josefina Muriel was awarded a scholarship in 1947 and 1949 by the government of Spain, conducting studies and research at the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, as well as continuing her studies at the University of Seville in the field of Spanish Art History and at the University of Santander in the fields of Philosophy of History, Hispano-American Art and Castilian Literature.
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Josefina Muriel was an Emeritus Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research of the UNAM and was interim director for three periods.
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Josefina Muriel was a level III researcher of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.
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Josefina Muriel was director of the Historical Archive of the Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcainas from 1976 to 1999.
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Josefina Muriel joined the Academia Mexicana de la Historia as a full member in 1993, occupying seat 27.
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Josefina Muriel was a member of the Hispano-American Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters since 1993.
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Josefina Muriel was named a full member of the Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country in 1995.
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Josefina Muriel was founder and member of the Mexican Society of Bibliophiles in 2007.
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Josefina Muriel wrote almost twenty books, eighty book chapters, forty monographs, articles in Mexican magazines and in Spanish magazines.