Esteban Garibay

Esteban de Garibay y Zamalloa, sometimes rendered as Çamalloa, was a Spanish Basque historian and writer.

Biography Garibay was born in the Basque town of Mondragon and initially trained to be a monk, although he left and was married later on. He studied at the University of Oñati, which was founded a few years after his birth and was the only university in Spanish Basque country, although he did not graduate.

He traveled to Antwerp to publish his Compendio historial at Christophe Plantin's publishing house between 1570 and 1572. He went into debt and eventually became bankrupt as a result, traveling back through France.

Garibay died in 1599. Among his biological descendents was a Franciscan cleric from his first marriage, and several from his second marriage.

Influence on Basque studies

Although Garibay's writings had counter-Reformation, national-Catholic, and Spanish royalist tendencies, Through his political connections, he tried to help the Province of Guipúzcoa recover its former status as a "kingdom", In the Compendio historial, he also supported an old myth that the Biblical figure Tubal was the patriarchal ancestor of Basques, in addition to arguing for supposed ancient boundaries of the Basque country which were far larger than today's.