Andrés Marcos Burriel y López (1719–1762) was a Spanish Jesuit historian and a key figure of the Spanish Enlightenment, most notable for editing Miguel Venegas' 1757 Noticia de la California, the first dedicated history of Spanish California. He was born in Buenache de Alarcón on November 19, 1719, studied at the Colegio Imperial de Madrid, and was ordained in 1743. He had intended to join the Jesuit missionaries in California but was instead assigned to investigative archival work in Spain, mainly to purge documents from the archives that related to Royal power over church authorities. With the accession of Prime Minister Richard Wall, Burriel was ordered to stop this work and return the documents he had collected; these were seized in 1756.

In 1754, Burriel was commissioned to edit and complete Miguel Venegas' unpublished 1730 Empresas Apostólicas, transforming it from a largely hagiographical work into a modern natural history. It would be published under Venegas' name in Madrid in 1757 and then translated to English (London, 1759), French (Paris, 1767), and other languages.



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