Joseph Neumann (1648–1732) was a Jesuit missionary in

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. Neumann was born at

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in the

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on 5 August 1648, and joined the Jesuits as a teenager. He was admitted to the Society on 24 September 1663 and sent to complete his education at

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. He went on to teach grammar, humanities and rhetoric at Jesuit schools in the Bohemian province, before being sent on the American mission. He left for the mission on 11 April 1678, and was stationed in

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. Herman Vander Linden, "Neumann (Joseph)", ''

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vol. 15
(Brussels, 1899), col. 633. His ''Historia seditionum'' (Prague, 1730) provided a history of rebellions by the Tarahumara in the

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, to some of which he had been a first-hand witness.Susan M. Deeds, "First-Generation Rebellions in Seventeenth-Century Nueva Vizcaya", in ''Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain'', edited by Susan Schroeder (University of Nebraska Press, 1998), pp. 1-29. He died in Mexico on 1 May 1732.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Neumann, Joseph 1648 births 1732 deaths People from Nueva Vizcaya, New Spain Jesuit historians and chroniclers