Ursula Acosta
Ursula Acosta (nee Schmidt, born January 14, 1933 ; † September 10, 2018 ) was one of the founders of the Puerto Rican Genealogical Society and also a psychologist and professor at the University of Puerto Rico .
Childhood and youth
Ursula Acosta was born in Hanover as the daughter of Hans Schmidt and Irma Ulrich. In 1935 her family moved to Leipzig, where she completed elementary school. In 1947, Acosta's family moved again - this time to Dieburg . In 1952 she met Sergeant Acosta Ronda, who served as a Puerto Rican in the US military and was stationed in Germany. The two fell in love and planned their wedding. On the advice of Ursula's father, however, she first completed her high school diploma in 1953 before traveling to Acosta Ronda to Puerto Rico .
Life and work in Puerto Rico
Ursula Acosta married Sergeant Acosta Ronda shortly after arriving in Puerto Rico and they had a son soon after. Ursula Acosta worked full time as a teacher in private schools and received her Bachelor degree in Social Sciences in 1971. In the following years she continued to work as a teacher and completed her master's degree in counseling psychology at the same time. In 1979 she received her doctorate in psychology from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with a focus on linguistics and sociology.
In 1980 she became aware of genealogy and studied the science in more detail. In April 1989 she finally founded the "Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Genealogía", which had set itself the goal of dealing with genealogy in the Puerto Rican area.
Publications
- Attribution of performance by teachers as a cause of different grade distribution in the classroom . 1979, OCLC 310783933 (dissertation).
- Familias de Cabo Rojo . Puerto Rico 1983, OCLC 11090397 (Spanish, with David E. Cuesta Camacho).
- Cabo Rojo: notas para su historia . Model Offset Printing, San Juan, Puerto Rico 1985, OCLC 656292344 (Spanish, together with Antonio Ramos y Ramírez de Arellano and Sifredo Lugo Toro).
- New voices of old: five centuries of Puerto Rican cultural history . Permanent Press, Santurce, Puerto Rico 1987, OCLC 988090255 (English).
Web links
- Literature by and about Ursula Acosta in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Acosta, Ursula |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Ursula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1933 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 2018 |