Short answers, pulled from the story.
Luisa de Medrano was a Basque-Castilian poet, philosopher, professor, and scholar from the Kingdom of Castile who, by 1508, is widely believed to have become the first female professor in Europe, teaching Latin at the University of Salamanca.
Luisa de Medrano was born in Atienza on the 9th of August 1484 and died in 1527.
Luisa de Medrano taught Latin at the University of Salamanca, receiving the chair in Poetry and Grammar left vacant by Antonio de Nebrija in 1508. On the 16th of November 1508, a chronicle recorded that she lectured in the Chair of Canons.
Queen Isabella I of Castile was Luisa de Medrano's greatest protector and patron, and it was under Isabella's court that Luisa received her education alongside the queen's daughters Isabel and Juana.
The historian Lucio Marineo Siculo misspelled her name as Lucía instead of Luisa in his 1530 book Cosas Memorables de España, and the error was repeated by later chroniclers and by institutions later named in her honor in Salamanca.
The Luisa de Medrano International Award for Gender Equality has been granted annually since 2016 by the Castilla-La Mancha Women's Institute, and the Hall of Cloisters at the University of Salamanca's Higher Schools was named Lucía de Medrano in her honor on the 12th of October 2015.