Maria Odulio de Guzman was a teacher, educator, principal, writer, and author. She was the first Filipino female principal of a secondary school

Secondary school

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 in the Philippines

Philippines

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. She worked as a teacher at the Nueva Ecija High School in Nueva Ecija

Nueva Ecija

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, Philippines from 1918 to 1928. She received her education from Radford State Teacher's College in the Virginia, United States

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. She was a professor at the Philippine Normal College. She was a compiler and author of several multilingual dictionaries in Tagalog

Tagalog language

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, Pilipino, Filipino

Filipino language

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, Spanish

Spanish language

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, and English

English language

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. She was also a translator of Jose Rizal

José Rizal

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's Noli me Tangere

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and a co-translator of El filibusterismo

El filibusterismo

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, another novel by Rizal.

Works

Among the dictionaries M.O. de Guzman authored include:

• English-Tagalog-Spanish and Tagalog-English Vocabulary, (with co-author Domingo de Guzman, Quezon City, Pressman, 1963, 228 pages)
• An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1966)
• New Tagalog-English English-Tagalog (1966)
• New English-Filipino Filipino-English Dictionary (1968)
• English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1966)
• New English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1968)
• The New Filipino-English/English-Filipino Dictionary (January 1, 1968)
• Bagong Diksiyonaryo: Pilipino-Ingles, Ingles-Pilipino (1968)
• Diksiyunaryo Pilipino-Ingles Pilipino (Pilipino-English-Pilipino Dictionary) (1970)
• An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1979)
• English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (1982)
• An English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (January 1, 1988)
• English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary (January 1, 1993)
• English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English (2000)
• New Tagalog-English Dictionary (2006)
• Bagong Talatinigan: Pilipino-Ingles Ingles-Pilipino ISBN 971-08-1745-0

Mga Akdang Isinalin

• El Filibusterismo ni Dr. Jose Rizal
• Noli Me Tangere ni Dr. Jose Rizal