Lidia Peradotto (1892–1951) was an Italian-Argentine logician,[1] the first author of a work on logic in Argentina[2] and the only female member of the Colegio Novecentista [es], an antipositivist youth intellectual association in Argentina in the 1917–1921 period.[1] She has been called "the single strongest intellectual and, possibly, moral influence" on Argentine philologist María Rosa Lida de Malkiel.[3]

Lidia Peradotto
Born1892
Turin, Italy
Died2 September 1951(1951-09-02) (aged 58–59)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation(s)Logician, Educator
Years active1917–1951

Peradotto was born in 1892 in Turin,[1] but later moved to Argentina with two sisters[3] and became a naturalized Argentine citizen.[1] In 1919, she was rector of the Liceo de Señoritas de La Plata, a girls' high school where Lida de Malkiel later studied, and vice president of the university student section of the Ateneo Hispano-Americano de Buenos Aires.[4] She defended her doctoral dissertation, La logística, in 1924, and published it a year later through the press of the University of Buenos Aires. It has been described as the first published work of any length on symbolic logic in Argentina.[2]

She was named as a professor in 1943, and given the chair for logic in the faculty of philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires.[1][5]

She died on 2 September 1951 in Buenos Aires.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Arella, Felipe Rodolfo (17 January 2023), "Las hijas de Perictione", Economía Solidaria (in Spanish), retrieved 2023-09-07
  2. ^ a b Oller, Carlos Alejandro (June 1989), "Lidia Peradotto: introductora de la lógica contemporánea en Argentina", Hiparquia (in Spanish), 2, retrieved 2023-09-07
  3. ^ a b Malkiel, Yakov (August 1963), "María Rosa Lida de Malkiel", Romance Philology, 17 (1): 9–32, JSTOR 44939926
  4. ^ Bustelo, Natalia (2014), "La construcción de la familia estudiantil de la Reforma Universitaria: El Ateneo de Estudiantes Universitarios (1914-1920) de Buenos Aires y sus publicaciones periódicas Ideas y Clarín", Políticas de la Memoria (in Spanish), 14, retrieved 2023-09-07
  5. ^ "La Doctora Lidia Peradotto : nueva profesora titular de lógica", Amicitia (in Spanish), 3 (14): 15–16, 1943