Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés
Spanish historian and writer
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, commonly known as Oviedo, was a Spanish soldier, historian, writer, botanist and colonist. Oviedo participated in the Spanish colonization of the West Indies, arriving in the first few years after Christopher... Wikipedia
Born: August 1478, Madrid, Spain
Died: 1557 (age 79 years), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic