Pastoriza Flores, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pastoriza Flores

Ecuadorian educator

Date of Birth: 02-May-1897

Place of Birth: Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador

Date of Death: 07-May-1937

Profession: educator

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Pastoriza Flores (Pastoriza Flores de Hendel) (2 May 1897 - 7 May 1937) was an Ecuadorian educator.
She was the first Ecuadorean woman student to hold the degree of Ph.D.
from an American university, and she was awarded it at the age of twenty-four.
"I had to hurry.
Other Hispanic Americans had come to study in the universities of the United States, and I was afraid some other woman would reach that goal before me."