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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