Faustino Galicia

Faustino Galicia Chimalpopoca or Faustino Chimalpopoca(tl) Galicia (died 1877) was the most active scholar of the Nahuatl language of the 19th century. Chimalpopoca is a Nahuatl name usually translated as "smoking shield", also borne by the third Aztec ruler. Under the Second Mexican Empire, he was appointed as an advisor to the government.[1]

Published works
  • Silabario de idioma mexicano (1849)
  • Epítome o modo fácil de aprender el idioma nahuatl o lengua mexicana (1869)

References
  1. McAllen, M.M. (8 January 2014). Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico. Trinity University Press. p. 142. ISBN 9781595341853.


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