Theodore de Laguna was an American philosopher who taught for years at Bryn Mawr College and was known as an early feminist.
Background
He was the son of Alexandro Francisco Lopez de Leo de Laguna, a French-United States. academic who was born in upper Normandy, France, and was of Italian and Jewish ancestry, and Fredericke Bergner, the daughter of refugees from the 1848 revolution in Germany.
Career
His mother died young, and he was raised by an aunt, Frederica. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1896, an Master of Arts in 1899, and a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Cornell University. In 1901 he volunteered as a teacher in the Philippines in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War.
In 1907 Theodore and Grace both began teaching philosophy at Bryn Mawr College.
In 1905, he accepted a position as a professor at the University of Michigan. He died in 1930.