LOZA, Jose Manuel (lo'-thah), Bolivian lawyer, born in Copacabana in 1799; died in La Paz in 1862. He studied in the universities of La Plata and La Paz of Ayacucho, and was graduated as doctor in canonical and civil law and literature, becoming teacher of philosophy, and successively vice-rector and rector of the College of La Paz. In 1845 he was vice-chancellor of the University of San Andres of La Paz, and in the years 1849 and 1861 was its chancellor. He was honorary minister of the supreme court of Lima in 1837, attorney-general of the judicial court of Cochabamba in 1839, president of the superior court of La Paz in 1848, a member of the commission that compiled the mercantile code of Santa Cruz, and general auditor of the army of the confederation in 1834-'5. He was also secretary to the Bolivian legation that signed the treaty of Fiquina in 1831, and to the Bolivian commission that examined in Sucre the treaty with France, and negotiated the treaty of intervention in Peruvian territory, under the form of a political convention, between Bolivia and Peru. At different times he has been deputy to congress and senator, diplomatic agent in Peru and Chili, and minister of public instruction and public works. He has published "Oda en verso latino y Castellano a la Concepcion immaculada," which was awarded a prize in the University of Rome, "E1 libro del pueblo," "La inviolabilidad de la vida humana," "Memorias biogr£ficas de Bolivar," and "La mujer en sus relaciones domesticas y sociales," which has been translated into French and Italian.