Waldisa Russio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Waldisa Russio

Brazilian civil servant and museologist

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1935

Place of Birth: São Paulo, Brazil

Date of Death: 11-Jun-1990

Profession: civil servant, museologist

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Waldisa Rússio Camargo Guarnieri (5 September 1935 – 11 June 1990), was a professor and museologist, most known in Brazil simply as Waldisa Rússio.
She became one of the most influential personalities in the development of theoretical Museology and contributed to the constitution of the disciplinary field of Museology in Brazil.
From 1957 she worked as a federal employee of the State of São Paulo in different positions and particularly in management reforms.
In 1959, she graduated in the Law school of the Universidade de São Paulo – USP (University of São Paulo) and started working with the management of cultural matters of the State.
On the 1970s, she was involved with issues more directly related to museums.