Josefina Muriel de la Torre (February 2, 1918 in Mexico City – January 30, 2008) was a Mexican writer, historian, researcher, bibliophile, and academic.
She obtained a master's degree and a doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1946.
She was a student of Pablo Martínez del Río, Federico Gómez de Orozco, Antonio Caso, Ignacio Dávila Garibi, Rafael Heliodoro Valle, Rafael García Granados and Manuel Toussaint among others.
[2] She was awarded a scholarship in 1947 and 1949 by the government of Spain, conducting studies and research at the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, as well as continuing her studies at the University of Seville in the field of Spanish Art History and at the University of Santander in the fields of Philosophy of History, Hispano-American Art and Castilian Literature.
She joined the Academia Mexicana de la Historia as a full member in 1993, occupying seat 27.