Josefina Muriel

Josefina Muriel de la Torre was a Mexican writer, historian, researcher, bibliophile, and academic. She specialized in the history of the feminine and religious world of the time of New Spain. She was awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic by the government of Spain in 1966.

Education

She obtained a master's degree and a doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1946. She was a student of Pablo Martínez del Río, Federico Gómez de Orozco, Antonio Caso, Ignacio Dávila Garibi, Rafael Heliodoro Valle, Rafael García Granados and Manuel Toussaint among others.
She 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.

Distinctions

She was an Emeritus Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research of the UNAM and was interim director for three periods. She was a level III researcher of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. She was director of the Historical Archive of the Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas from 1976 to 1999. She joined the Academia Mexicana de la Historia as a full member in 1993, occupying seat 27. She was a member of the Hispano-American Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters since 1993. She was named a full member of the Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country in 1995. She was founder and member of the Mexican Society of Bibliophiles in 2007.

Awards

Order of Isabella the Catholic by the government of Spain in 1966.
Emeritus Researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1990.
Medal for 45 years of academic services by the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1996.
Medal of Historical Merit – Captain Alonso de León by the Neolonese Society of History, Geography and Statistics in 1996.
Lady of History Prize in 1998.
United Mexico Foundation Award in 2002.
Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz Award in 2003.

Publications

She wrote almost twenty books, eighty book chapters, forty monographs, articles in Mexican magazines and in Spanish magazines. Her works include:Conventos de monjas en la Nueva España. Retratos de monjas. La sociedad novohispana y sus colegios de niñas. I. Fundaciones del siglo XVI. La sociedad novohispana y sus colegios de niñas. II. Fundaciones de los siglos XVII, XVIII y XIX. Hospitales de la Nueva España. Las indias caciques de Corpus Christi. Los recogimientos de mujeres. Respuesta a una problemática social novohispana. Cultura femenina novohispana. Los vascos en México y su Colegio de las Vizcaínas. Las mujeres de Hispanoamérica en la época colonial. Crónica del Real Colegio de Santa Rosa de Viterbo. La música en las Instituciones Femeninas Novohispanas.