Luis Alejandro Baralt Zacharie
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Luis Alejandro Baralt y Zacharie (1892–1969) was a Cuban playwright.[1]
Biography
Baralt was born in New York on April 12, 1892.[2] He was the youngest of three children of Luis Alejandro Baralt y Peoli (1849–1933), a professor of Spanish, journalist, doctor and diplomat, and Blanche Zacharie Hutchings (1865–1950), the first woman to receive a degree in philosophy from the University of Havana.[3]
Baralt gained a PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Havana in 1914, and a Masters from Harvard University in 1916. From 1918 to 1924 he was professor of English at the Havana Institute of Secondary Education.[2]
In 1932-33 he was Professor of Latin American Culture at the University of Miami. In 1934 he became Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the University of Havana.[2] He was the director of Teatro la Cueva, an experimental Havana theater which he founded in 1936.[4] On 6 November 1936 La luna y el pantano opened, written and directed by Baralt. The cast included the student leader Teté Casuso.[5]
Following the Cuban Revolution, in 1960, Baralt left Cuba for exile in the United States. He died in September 1969.[2]
Works
- (tr. and ed.) Martí on the U.S.A. by José Martí. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966.