Josefina Passadori (5 April 1900 – 13 December 1987) was an Italian-

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academic, educator, and writer. She published several textbooks as well as poetry under the

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Fröken Thelma.

Biography

Passadori was born in

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, Italy. In 1922, she graduated from ''La Unidad Académica Escuela Normal Superior N° 1 Mary O. Graham'' in

La Plata La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the , it has a population of 654,324 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 787,294 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from th ...

, where she taught for almost forty years (Spanish, Italian, History, Geography and Literature). She also worked for other schools, such as Escuela Normal Superior María Inmaculada in La Plata; Escuela Nº 18 del Consejo Escolar Nº14 in Buenos Aires; School of Journalism of the

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; and the Universidad Popular Sarmiento, for which she was the President for several years. At the age of twenty, she founded the first

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n school cooperative, of which she was also the first president. She headed many other cultural institutions, including th
Arts Society
She served as Education Undersecretary in the

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. Passadori published hundreds of articles in ''

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'', '' El Día'', and '' Revista del Suboficial''; gave conferences; and sponsored the "Ediciones del Bosque", an organization which promoted and published intellectuals in

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, including

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, and

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, among others. She published over 30 textbooks, some in collaboration with other authors, such as the ''Manual del Alumno'' used by many generations in Argentina. Passadori died in San Isidro,

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, on 13 December 1987, aged 87.

Works

*''Elementos de geografía'' (1940) *''El universo y los países'' (1941) *''Geografía de América'' (1938) *''Geografía General y de Asia y Africa'' (1942) *''El Continente Americano'' (1939) *''El Mundo Actual'' (1955) *''El Universo y la Argentina'' (1939) *''Argentina'' (1939) *''Manual de Geografía Americana'' (1941) *''Nociones de Geografía Astronómica, General, y de Asia y Africa'' (1949) *''El territorio Argentino'' (1943) *''Geografía Universal'' (1944) *''Geografía Americana'' (1944)

Sources

*''Diccionario biográfico'', C Signo Editorial Argentino, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1954, p. 292 * Sosa de Newton, Lily, ''Diccionario biográfico de mujeres argentinas'', Editorial Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1980, p. 344 {{DEFAULTSORT:Passadori, Josefina 1900 births 1987 deaths Italian emigrants to Argentina Italian expatriates in Argentina Naturalized citizens of Argentina Argentine educators Argentine women educators Italian educators Italian women educators People from La Plata 20th-century Argentine women writers 20th-century Argentine writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers