GARCIA ENSENAT 



EZEQUIEL GARCIA ENSENAT 



Educator; public man. 



Ezequiel Garcia Ensenat was born in 

 Havana on the twenty-third of March, 

 1862. His advanced studies were pursued 

 in the University of Havana, in which he 

 graduated in law and afterwards as Doctor 

 of Letters. He soon became known as a 

 writer in the field of literature and jour- 

 nalism but took no part in public life while 

 Cuba was a Spanish colony. For some time 

 he remained away from the Island and 

 traveled in Europe, residing tor a consider- 

 able period in Paris, where he devoted 

 himself to the study of literature, history, 

 and art, and contributed to Cuban reviews 

 and papers and also those of other countries. 

 During the War of Independence he was 

 secretary of the committee representing 

 the Cuban Revolutionary party, and also 



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