I R A I Z OZ 



ANTONIO IRAIZOZ Y DEL VILLAR 



Journalist; author. 



Antonio Iraizoz y del Villar was born 

 on the fourteenth of June, 1890, in Ha- 

 vana, where he received his education and 

 where he has had his career. He studied 

 at the Colegio "La Gran Antilla" and 

 completed the course leading to the degree 

 of Bachelor of Arts and Sciences. Obtain- 

 ing also the degree of public teacher he 

 entered the profession and taught in the 

 schools for five years. Perceiving, how- 

 ever, that his true vocation lay in journal- 

 ism, he served on the editorial staffs of 

 several Havana papers, including La Dis- 

 cusion, La Prensa, and La Liicha and later 

 became editor-in-chief of Patria. In 1913 

 he became editor-in-chief of La Noche, an 

 important evening paper, and has con- 

 tinued at that post. 



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