Alfredo Federico López Austin (March 12, 1936 – October 15, 2021)[1][2] was a Mexican historian who wrote extensively on the Aztec worldview and on Mesoamerican religion.
López Austin was born in Ciudad Juárez, México.
He attended law school and worked as a lawyer in his hometown.
His academic association with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, Mexico's autonomous national university), where he was a student, spans some fifty years, and as of 2007[update] he still held a position as a researcher (emeritus) at UNAM's Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas (IIA, or Institute of Anthropological Research).
López Austin lectured in the History department of UNAM's Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (FFyL).