Raimundo Lida

Raimundo Lida (1908–1979) was an Argentine philologist, philosopher of language, literary critic and essayist.

His older brother Emilio became a hematologist and his younger sister Maria Rosa Lida also became a philologist.

In 1930 Lida became an Argentine citizen, after studying his high school at the Colegio Nacional Manuel Belgrano.

Lida taught aesthetics and literature at the National University of La Plata, and Literature at the Instituto Superior del Profesorado Secundario and at the Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores, in Buenos Aires.

In addition to his own work, he published translations into Spanish of a range of scientific, philosophical and literary works, by such authors as Moritz Geiger, Karl Vossler, Helmut Hatzfeld, George Santayana, W. Dilthey and Leo Spitzer.

She wrote important works on Benito Pérez Galdós and a collection of Sephardic proverbs.