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Luis Alejandro BARALT, Cuban lawyer, professor;. Decoration: officer, Sol del Perú. member commission to reorganize secondary edn., 1936; member exec, board, Cuban Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations; Member: Corporación Nacional de Autores (president), Society de la Orquesta Filarmónica, Havana Yacht Club, Pro-Arte Musical; member Society Geográfica de Lima.

Background

BARALT, Luis Alejandro was born on April 12, 1892 in New York (United States of America), Cuba.

Education

Graduated Institute de La Habana, 1909. Ph.D., University de La Habana, 1914, Doctor of Law, 1917.

Career

Professor; Professor of English, Institute de La Habana, 1918-1934. Secretary, special embassy sent to Peru for celebration of centenary of battle of Ayacucho, 1924-1925. Professor, of Latin American culture, University of Miami, 1932-1933.

Under-secretary of public edn., 1933, secretary, 1934. Professor, of philosophy, University de La Habana, since 1934, secretary of the summer school, 1941-1943. Secretary, organizing committee, International Center on Intellectual Cooperation, since 1943.

Director, La Cueva art theater. Officer, Sol del Perú. Master of Arts, Harvard (United States of America), 1916.

Also studied in Columbia University, 1916.

Membership

Member commission to reorganize secondary edn., 1936. Member exec, board, Cuban Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. Member: Corporación Nacional de Autores (president), Society de la Orquesta Filarmónica, Havana Yacht Club, Pro-Arte Musical.

Member Society Geográfica de Lima.

Connections

Father:
Luis Alejandro Baralt y Peoli

Mother:
Blanca Zacharie y Hutchings

Spouse:
Lillian Mederos y Cabañas

child:
Carlos Manuel BARALT

child:
Luis Alejandro BARALT

child:
Jorge Juan BARALT