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Died | December 22, 1970 Cebu, Philippines | (aged 82)
Monuments | Vicente Gullas Memorial Hospital[1] Vicente Gullas Street, Cebu City |
Nationality | Philippines |
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Spouse | Josefina Rivera Gullas |
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Relatives | Paulino Gullas (brother) |
Vicente Arandia Gullas (January 12, 1888 – December 22, 1970) was a Filipino writer, lawyer, and educator from Cebu, Philippines. Founder of the Visayan Institute, he introduced innovation in educational system through the establishment of working student and study-now-pay-later schemes and of satellite schools to allow students from locations outside Cebu City. In 2019, he was hailed as one of the top 100 Cebuano personalities.
As a writer, he published three editions of the English-Cebuano-Spanish dictionary, wrote poems that were printed in the Cebuano periodical, Ang Suga, and published the 1938 historical fiction, Lapu-lapu: Ang Nagbuntog Kang Magellan (Lapu-lapu: The Conqueror of Magellan), which was republished in 2007.