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N.Y. Encyclopedia of Famous Puerto
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Antonio S. Pedreira
Antonio
S. Pedreira, educator, writer, was born in San Juan. Puerto Rico on the 13th of
June,1899. He graduated as teacher of elementary school in the University of
Puerto Rico (UPR), he initiated Medicine studies in the University of Columbia,
in New York but he suspended them because it lacked economic resources. He
returned to Puerto Rico, and in 1925, he graduated as bachelor in Arts, the UPR.
In 1932 Pedreira completed his doctorate in Philosophy and Letters in the
Central University of Madrid. He was university professor of Spanish Literature
in the University of Puerto Rico. He taught in the University of Columbia. He
directed the Department of Hispanic Studies of the UPR, whose direction was
trusted the years to him later. There he made his more fruitful work. All his
literary production had as he puts to educate his town. His column of literary
critic "Explanations and critics" that ihepublished in the World was a true
intellectual light. He was founding co publisher and of the Indice magazine. In
the 1934 it publishes one of his more important works Insularismo. The work
studies ethnic factors that are based on the puertorriqueñismo: ameriindio, the
Spanish and the African. Other books are: Edges (1930), Hostos, citizen of
America (1932), the present time of the poor farmer (1935) and the terrible year
of the 87 (1937). After a very productive career, he died the 23 of October of
1939.
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