Ernest Joseph Burrus (1907–1991) was a Jesuit and a leading historian of northwestern New Spain, particularly the Baja California peninsula and Sonora.
He made notable contributions by editing many accounts of the Jesuit period from European archives.
After teaching for 10 years, he was transferred in 1950 to work at the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome.
[1][2] The documents he published, in Spanish, in English translation, or both, covered a wide geographical range, but focused particularly on northwestern New Spain.
Among his most noteworthy book-length publications are a four-column history of the Jesuits in New Spain by Francisco Javier Alegre[3] and accounts by Jesuit missionaries including Eusebio Francisco Kino,[4][5][6][7][8][9] Juan María de Salvatierra,[10] Francisco María Piccolo,[11] Wenceslaus Linck,[12][13] Benno Ducrue,[14] and others.