Delfina Bunge


Delfina Bunge de Gálvez was an Argentine writer, poet, essayist and philanthropist.

Biography

Born in Buenos Aires, she was the daughter of Raimundo Octavio Bunge, quondam justice of the Supreme Court of Argentina, and María Luisa Justa Rufina de Arteaga. She had at least three brothers: Carlos Octavio Bunge, publicist, sociologist and historian, as well as Augusto Bunge and Alejandro Bunge, who were involved in the country's affairs; she also had a sister, Julia Bunge de Uranga. She was educated in the Colegio del Sagrado Corazón.
Bunge married Manuel Gálvez. Some of her first verses which were published in magazines and newspapers, were in the French language. Her first volume of poems, Simplement, appeared in Paris in 1911. In 1933, in collaboration with her sister, Julia, Bunge published El arca de Noé; in 1918, she issued a second book of verse in French, La nouvelle moisson, in Buenos Aires; and later, she published Historia y novena de Nuestra Senora de Lourdes.
During World War II, Bunge published anti-semitic works that promoted conspiracies that Jews sought to undermine Christian society.
She died in Alta Gracia in 1952 and appeared on an Argentine stamp in 1983.

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