Name France Scholes | Died 1979 | |
Occupation Historian, professor, author Known for Latin American research | ||
France Vinton Scholes (1897–1979) was an American scholar and historian noted for his research on the history of New Spain, especially Spanish Yucatan and Southwestern United States.
Much of his research was conducted in the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain, where he was sent in 1935 by the Carnegie Institute of Washington, DC, as part of a larger study on the Yucatan which was led by Alfred Kidder. In 1940, the study on Yucatan lost financial support from the Carnegie Institute and much of the literature and research was transferred over to the Library of Congress of the United States in the city of Washington.
He served for over sixty years in academia specializing in the field of historical research. He studied at Harvard University. He lectured at Radcliffe College; at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Colorado College. After working for the Carnegie Institute, he taught at the University of New Mexico. Scholes published more than fifty publications on the history of New Mexico in the seventeenth century; Mayan and Mesoamerica society during the Spanish colonization and conquest of Mexico, during the same period.
He died in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 11, 1979.
Works
Among other books, he published:
From 1955-1961 he published several papers on the history of New Spain. Before he died he wrote about the life of Hernán Cortés, leaving an unfinished book and giving the manuscript to the University of Tulane.