Josefina Passadori

Josefina Passadori (5 April 1900 – 13 December 1987) was an Italian-Argentine academic, educator, and writer. She published several textbooks as well as poetry under the pen name Fröken Thelma.

Biography Passadori was born in Mezzanino, Pavia, Italy, in 1900.

In 1922, she graduated from La Unidad Académica Escuela Normal Superior N° 1 Mary O. Graham in La Plata, where she taught for almost forty years. She was responsible for teaching subjects such as Spanish, Italian, Ancient History, American Geography, Argentine Geography, American Literature, Argentine Literature, and Argentine Culture.

She also worked for other schools, such as Escuela Normal Superior María Inmaculada in La Plata; Escuela Nº 18 del Consejo Escolar Nº14 in Buenos Aires; School of Journalism of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata; and the Universidad Popular Sarmiento, for which she was the President for several years.

In 1930, she was one of the survivors of the MV Monte Cervantes shipwreck, which ran aground near the Les Éclaireurs Lighthouse in Tierra del Fuego.

Passadori died in San Isidro, Argentina, on 13 December 1987, aged 87. El universo y los países (1941) Geografía de América (1938) Geografía General y de Asia y Africa (1945) El Continente Americano (1939) El Mundo Actual (1955) El Universo y la Argentina (1939) Nociones de Geografía Astronómica, General, y de Asia y Africa (1949) El territorio Argentino (1952) Geografía Universal (1944) Geografía Americana (1944)