Maria Odulio de Guzman

This article is about a Filipino lexicographer. For the Filipino actress, see Malou de Guzman.

Maria Odulio de Guzman was a teacher, educator, principal, writer, and author. She was the first Filipino female principal of a secondary school in the Philippines. She worked as a teacher at the Nueva Ecija High School in Nueva Ecija, Philippines from 1918 to 1928. She received her education from Radford State Teacher's College in the Virginia, United States. She was a professor at the Philippine Normal College.[1] She was a compiler and author of several multilingual dictionaries in Tagalog (Filipino), Spanish, and English. She was also a translator of Jose Rizal's Noli me Tangere and a co-translator of El filibusterismo, another novel by Rizal.[2]

Works

Among the dictionaries M.O. de Guzman authored include:[3]

Mga Akdang Isinalin

References

  1. Boynton, Victoria and Jo Malin. Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography: K-Z, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005 ISBN 0-313-32739-4, ISBN 978-0-313-32739-1, 625 pages, page 462–463
  2. National Artist Virgilio Almario's Lecture on Rizal, FilipinoWriter.com, June 19, 2008
  3. Maria Odulio de Guzman, Amazon.com
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