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Pedro Lozano
1697–1752
A Jesuit missionary and historian of colonial South America, he wrote vivid accounts of Paraguay, the Río de la Plata, and the Gran Chaco that still matter to scholars today. His work blends history, geography, and close observation of the people and places around him.
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Diario de un viage a la costa de la mar Magallanica
by Pedro Lozano
About the author
Born in Madrid in 1697, Pedro Lozano entered the Society of Jesus as a teenager and soon traveled to South America. He spent much of his life in the Jesuit province of Paraguay, studying and teaching in Córdoba and building a reputation as a careful chronicler of the region.
Lozano is remembered for writing major historical and descriptive works about Paraguay, the Río de la Plata, Tucumán, and the Gran Chaco. His books brought together political history, missionary life, geography, and ethnographic detail, making them valuable records of colonial life and of Indigenous communities as they were seen by an 18th-century Jesuit writer.
He died in 1752 in Humahuaca, in present-day Argentina. For readers interested in early South American history, his writing offers both a rich source of information and a window into how the colonial world was documented in his time.