The New International Encyclopædia/Luz-Caballero, José de la

LUZ-CABALLERO, lo͞os′ kä′Bȧ-lyā′rō̇, José de la (1800-62). A Cuban educator, born in Havana, he received his education in Havana, and was made professor in the Seminary of San Carlos there in 1824. In 1832 he was appointed president of the College of Carraguao, and afterwards held the chair of philosophy in the College of San Francisco, Havana. He established the College of San Salvador at Havana, in 1848, and taught there until his death. He wrote: Impugnación al examen de Cousin (1840), and translations of Volney's Travels in Egypt and Syria, with notes and additions (1829), and of Siegling's Public Prisons and Their Reforms (1837). Consult the Life, by Rodriguez (New York, 1874).