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Hernandez Y Gimeno

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HERNANDEZ Y GIMENO, Pablo, Spanish author and priest of the Society of Jesus: b. Rubielos de la Cerida, Teruel, Spain, 9 Oct. 1852. He was educated at the Seminary of Saragossa and at Jesuit scholasticates in France and Spain. In 1872 he entered the Jesuit Order and from 1877 to 1880 was profes sor of Latin grammar at a Jesuit scholasticate in Chile. From 1880 to INS he was professor of science in a Jesuit college in Argentina, and in the latter year returned to Spain. In 1888 he was ordained to the priesthood; taught phi losophy at Valencia, 1889-90; scholastic phi losophy, 1890-93; and Scripture, 1894, in vanous scholasticates in Spain. In 1894-96 he was pro fessor of physics, zoology and mathematics in the College of Our Savior, Buenos Aires; in 1896-98 taught theology and canon law in the Seminary of Buenos Aires, and from 1898 to 1903 assisted Rafael Perez in writing his 'His toria de la Compafiii moderns la Argentina y Chile.) For the next seven years he assisted

Father Astrain with his 'Historia de la Asis tencia de Espana.) In 1912-13 he was a member of the editorial staff of the periodical Razdn y Fe. He has written 'Judicio critico de la edu mei& antigua y la moderns' (1886; 1888); 'El extranamiento de los Jesuitas del Rio de la Plata y de las misiones del Paraguay' (1908); 'Los Jesuitas en el Rio de la Plata: Historia del (4 vols., 1910-13), a trans lation of Muriel's 'Historia Paraguajensis.' He edited Cardiel's 'Declaration de la verdad' (1900) ; (Organizaci6n social de las doctrinas Guaranies de la Compaflia de Jesus' (2 vols., 1913). He is a contributor to Raz& y Fe Revises eclesidstica del Arzobispado de Buenos Aires; Amigo del Clero of Lima; La Revista ecktidetita of Santiago, Chile, 'Resefia His gorica de la Misilm de 1836 1914' (1914) ; and (El P. Francisco Suarez, S. I.' (1917).