Luisa Luisi Janicki, was a Uruguayan poet, teacher, and literary critic.
13 Facts About Luisa Luisi
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Luisa Luisi's father was Angel Luisi Pisano, an Italian who brought to America his masonic ideas of liberty.
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Luisa Luisi's mother, Maria Teresa Josefina Janicki, was a teacher and daughter of exiled Poles living in France.
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Luisa Luisi's parents arrived as newlyweds in Entre Rios, Argentina, in 1872, and moved to Paysandu, Uruguay, in 1878, before finally settling down in Montevideo in 1887.
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Luisa Luisi was an attentive student, studying education in the Instituto Normal de Senoritas "Maria Stagnero de Munar," and graduated in 1903.
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Luisa Luisi began her career as an assistant teacher in the Second School of the Third-Grade, and went on to direct the Second-Grade School of Practice and the School of Application.
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Luisa Luisi was part of the Consejo Nacional de Ensenanza Primaria y Normal from 1925 until her retirement in 1929.
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Luisa Luisi was a Spanish professor in the Women's Section of Secondary Education and taught literature and oration in the Maria Stagnero de Munar Institute.
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Luisa Luisi published four poems whilst dabbling in prose with four other edited works that were mostly dedicated to education.
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Luisa Luisi participated as an official delegate in the Congress of the Child, created in Buenos Aires in 1916, and occupied the position of secretary in the Department of Education of the Second Congress of the Child, held in Montevideo three years later.
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Luisa Luisi was declared an honorary member of the Association of Primary School Professors of Rio de Janeiro.
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Luisa Luisi's philosophically inclined poetry and her rigorous critical works quickly reached an international public platform in Buenos Aires and in Barcelona and is studied in Madrid and in Paris.
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Luisa Luisi's works were translated into English by A Stone Blackwell in 1929.