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LEONARDO SORZANO-JORRIN 



Teacher; writer. 



Leonardo Sorzano-Jorrin was born in 

 Paris, during the voluntary exile of his 

 grandfather, Jose Silverio Jorrin, and his 

 family, at the time of the Ten Years' War. 

 Educated in the United States, he received 

 his A.B. degree at Georgetown University 

 in 1899 and thence proceeded to Havana, 

 where he studied law at the University of 

 Havana and was admitted to the bar in 

 191 1, being now a practicing lawyer and 

 notary public. 



In 1900 he won, through competitive 

 examination, a life professorship of the 

 English Language in the Institute of Ha- 

 vana where he is still lecturing. He has 

 written two elementary school books for 

 the teaching of English, which have run 

 into many editions, entitled Libro Pri- 



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