María Odulio de Guzmán (born 1895) was a Filipino teacher, educator, principal, writer, and author. She was the first Filipino female principal of a

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in the

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. She worked as a teacher at the Nueva Écija High School in the

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from 1918 to 1928. She graduated in 1930 from Radford State Teachers' College (now

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), located in

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, United States. She was a professor at the

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. She was a compiler and author of several multilingual dictionaries in

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, and

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. She was also a translator of

José Rizal José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (, ; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered the national he ...

's '' Noli Me Tangere'' and a co-translator of '' El filibusterismo'', another novel by Rizal.National Artist Virgilio Almario's Lecture on Rizal
FilipinoWriter.com, June 19, 2008

Works

Among the dictionaries M.O. de Guzman authored include:Maria Odulio de Guzman
Amazon.com *''English-Tagalog-Spanish and Tagalog-English Vocabulary'', (with co-author Domingo de Guzman, Quezon City, Pressman, 1963, 228 pages) *''An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary'' (1966) *''New Tagalog-English English-Tagalog'' (1966) *''New English-Filipino Filipino-English Dictionary'' (1968) *''English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary'' (1966) *''New English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary'' (1968) *''The New Filipino-English/English-Filipino Dictionary'' (January 1, 1968) *''Bagong Diksiyonaryo: Pilipino-Ingles, Ingles-Pilipino'' (1968) *''Diksiyunaryo Pilipino-Ingles Pilipino (Pilipino-English-Pilipino Dictionary)'' (1970) *''An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary'' (1979) *''English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary'' (1982) *''An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary'' (January 1, 1988) *''English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary'' (January 1, 1993) *''English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English'' (2000) *''New Tagalog-English Dictionary'' (2006) *''Bagong Talatinigan: Pilipino-Ingles Ingles-Pilipino'' Translated works / Mga Akdang Isinalin *''El filibusterismo ni Dr. Jose Rizal'' *''Noli Me Tangere ni Dr. Jose Rizal

References

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