ORTIZ 



FERNANDO ORTIZ Y FERNANDEZ 

 Lawyer; criminologist; author. 



Fernando Ortiz y Fernandez was born 

 in Havana on the sixteenth of July, 1881, 

 of a Spanish father and a Cuban mother. 

 He prepared for his Bachelorate in Men- 

 orca, Spain, and commenced in Havana 

 the study of law from which he was gradu- 

 ated in Barcelona in 1900. In 1901 he 

 received the degree of Doctor of Laws from 

 the Central University of Madrid and was 

 made Doctor of Civil Law (1902) and Doc- 

 tor of Public Law (1906) by the University 

 of Havana. 



From 1902 until 1906 he was Cuba's con- 

 sular representative in Italy and Spain after 

 which he served for two years as Public 

 Prosecutor in Havana; he then became Pro- 

 fessor of Public Law in the University of 

 Havana, which position he resigned in 1916 



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