D E ARMAS 



RODOLFO RODRIGUEZ DE ARMAS 



Scholar; teacher; publicist. 



Rodolfo Rodriguez de Armas was 

 born on the fourth of February, 1874, in 

 Havana, and gained part of his education 

 in the city of his birth. In the year 1891 

 he became editor of the Revista Universi- 

 taria, and in the following year edited also 

 El Centenario en la Habana. He served 

 for a time as Professor of Latin Grammar 

 and of Spanish Grammar and Literature 

 in the Institute of Pinar del Rio, and won 

 the following degrees Doctor in Philo- 

 sophy and Letters and Licentiate in Law. 



In 1898 he went as Deputy for Havana to 

 the Spanish Cortes where he urged that a 

 sweeping autonomy be granted to Cuba, and 

 later besought the Spanish government to 

 authorize the execution of the Treaty of Paris 

 with the United States, maintaining that it 

 was the duty of Spain to assure the recog- 

 nition of Cuba as an independent nation. 



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