Rafael Obligado

Rafael Obligado was born in Buenos Aires on 27 January 1851, according to Biografías y Vidas, the son of Luis Obligado y Saavedra and María Jacinta Ortiz Urién. He began studying law without completing it, then took part in the founding of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, of which he was several times vice-dean. A correspondent of the Royal Spanish Academy, nicknamed the poet of the Paraná, he had a castle built near Ramallo in 1896. He died in Mendoza on 8 March 1920.

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• PoetrySantos VegaRafael Obligado · 1885not translated into EnglishLiterature