Indianos precursores de la filantropía docente en Galicia (1607-1699)

Abstract

In this article we make a first recount and analysis of the philantropic actions undertaken in the educational area by indiano galicians during the 17^th century, prelude of a long duration process that will go on until our days. The sources used have a documentary and bibliographic character. The content of the work is focused on the personal and professional profile of donnors, their geographic settlement, the chronologic distribution of the contributions they made, their financial dimension, the payees and specific uses that they confered them, the realizations that they started and the motivations underlying their remittances. The provisional balance shows a total of 12 benefactors and wealth relatively substantial and plural.