Risieri Frondizi

Risieri Frondizi, who was born November 20, 1910 in Posadas, Argentina to Italian immigrant parents and died February 23, 1983, was an Argentine philosopher and anthropologist who served as rector of the University of Buenos Aires; his brother Arturo later became president of Argentina, and another brother, Silvio, was a Marxist theorist and politician. He earned a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1943 and a doctorate from Mexico's National Autonomous University in 1950, began teaching philosophy in Buenos Aires in 1935, directed the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National University of Tucuman from its founding in 1937 until 1946, and became rector of the University of Buenos Aires in 1957, where he promoted institutional expansion and scholarship programs. Exiled after the 1966 military coup and the crackdown known as the Night of the Long Batons, he taught afterward at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania and UCLA, publishing fifteen books and more than one hundred articles on philosophy, values and educational reform before dying of a heart attack while teaching at Baylor University.