Charles E. Dibble, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles E. Dibble

American Mesoamericanist

Date of Birth: 18-Aug-1909

Date of Death: 30-Nov-2002

Profession: translator, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Charles E. Dibble

  • Charles E.
  • Dibble (18 August 1909 – 30 November 2002) was an American academic, anthropologist, linguist, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.
  • A former Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah, Dibble retired in 1978 after an association with the university as lecturer and researcher spanning four decades.
  • Post-retirement Dibble continued to conduct and publish research in his area of expertise, studies of Mesoamerican historical literature and the historiography of conquest-era Mesoamerican cultures, in particular those of the Aztec and others of the central Mexican altiplano.
  • Among many contributions to the field Dibble is perhaps most recognised for his collaboration with colleague Arthur J.O.
  • Anderson, producing the modern annotated translation into English of the volumes of the Florentine Codex. Born in Layton, Utah, Dibble attended the University of Utah, obtaining a B.A.
  • in history in 1936.
  • Dibble traveled to Mexico in the year preceding his graduation, and his experiences there shaped the direction of his future career as a Mesoamericanist scholar.
  • Dibble enrolled at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City for postgraduate studies, completing a Master's degree in anthropology in 1938.
  • Upon receiving his MA Dibble gained a teaching position at his alma mater in Utah commencing in 1939, where he would be based for the remainder of his long academic career.
  • At the same time he pursued his doctoral studies at UNAM, and was awarded his PhD from UNAM in 1942.
  • Dibble also undertook a year's post-doctoral work at Harvard, in 1943.
  • In 1994, a festschrift entitled Chipping away on earth: studies in prehispanic and colonial Mexico in honor of Arthur J.O.
  • Anderson and Charles E.
  • Dibble was published.

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