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Juan Félix de la Encarnación
1806–1879
A Spanish Augustinian Recollect missionary and gifted lexicographer, he is remembered for major 19th-century dictionaries of Bisaya/Cebuano. His work grew out of years in the Philippines and helped preserve and study the language in lasting detail.
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Diccionario Español-Bisaya : Segunda edición
by Juan Félix de la Encarnación
About the author
Born in Geria, Valladolid, in 1806, he entered the Augustinian Recollects and became active in the Philippines in the middle decades of the 19th century. Sources describe him as a religious scholar and lexicographer whose life’s work centered on language as well as mission.
He is best known for his Bisaya–Spanish and Spanish–Bisaya dictionaries, works closely associated with Cebuano and often praised for their depth. Those books, along with his other writings in Philippine languages, made him an important figure in the study of language in the Spanish colonial Philippines.
He died in 1879. Reliable pages about him are available, but I could not confirm a suitable portrait image from those sources, so no profile image is included here.