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Dec 01, 1896 New Haven, Connecticut, United States Died on 30 Aug 1996 (aged 99)
American historian
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About Irving A. Leonard
- Irving Albert Leonard (December 1, 1896 in New Haven, Connecticut – October 1, 1996 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American historian and translator, specialising in Hispanic history and art.
- His best known publications are Books of the Brave (1949) and Baroque Times in Old Mexico: Seventeenth-Century Persons, Places and Practices (1959), which won the Conference on Latin American History award for the best book in English.
- Books of the Brave, a valuable account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World, was updated in 1992.
- He had many papers published in the American Historical Review and the Hispanic American Historical Review, such as A Frontier Library, 1799 (Feb.
- 1943, vol.
- 23, no.
- 1, p.
- 21–51).
- In 1960, Leonard served as chair of the Conference on Latin American History, the professional organization of Latin American historians.
