Delfina Bunge

Delfina Bunge de Gálvez (December 24, 1881 – March 30, 1952) was an Argentine writer, poet, essayist and philanthropist.

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.

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.

[1] During World War II, Bunge published anti-semitic works that promoted conspiracies that Jews sought to undermine Christian society.

[2] Her daughter and namesake, Delfina Gálvez Bunge, married the influential Argentine architect Amancio Williams.