Brentán Károly hittérítői és tudományos tevékenysége a Perui Alkirályság területén
The Missionary and Scientifi c Activity of Károly Brentán on the Territory of the Viceroyalty of Peru

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is, on the one hand, to present Károly Brentán’s missionary achievements he accomplished in the territory of the Maynas Jesuit District during the third decade of the 18th century and, on the other hand, to provide a detailed examination of his work as head of the Jesuit Province of Quito and as procurator generalis in the 1740s. Moreover, the paper focuses on important aspects of Brentán’s scientific achievements by detailing certain characteristics of his lost opus – Marannonensium S. J. Missionum generalis Historia iconibus illustrata – and by analyzing the particularities of the Provincia Quitensis, a map from 1751, which bares his name along with a fellow Jesuit. During the critical reconstruction of Brentán’s life and deeds, various primary sources were taken into consideration: his own letters, accounts and reports, which can be found at the Archivo Documental de la Biblioteca Ecuatoriana Aurelio Espinosa Pólit and other previously published records written by his Jesuit contemporaries.

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