Abstract
Archival research on Juan Huarte-de-San-Juan: the first years of professional practice (1560-1578). Juan Huarte de San Juan is regarded as a major precursor of psychological assessment. The growing scholarship on his Examination of men's wit (1575-1594) in the last decades has not been accompanied by historiographical studies on his work and life. The only complete biographic study based on archival research was published by Iriarte (1938). In this manuscript we discuss the particulars of the identification of this author in documentary sources. New evidences about his life are reported and reviewed along with the data already available. We focus on the period started by the ending of his doctorate (1560) and the birth of his last daughter (1578). Huarte spent most of these years in Baeza (Spain) as a physician.
