Aurelia Vélez Sársfield

Aurelia Vélez Sarsfield

Aurelia Vélez Sarsfield (8 June 1836, Buenos Aires, Argentina - 6 December 1924, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine writer.

Biography

Aurelia Vélez Sarsfield was the second daughter of the legislator Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield. Her mother was Manuela Velázquez Piñero. From her early years, she received a good education. This, coupled with the teachings of her father, led her to become a secretary, which assisted her when drafting of the Código Civil de Argentina of 1869. At the age of seventeen, in 1857, she married her cousin, Dr. Pedro Ortiz Vélez , who was the son of the secretary of Facundo Quiroga.^[1] Their marriage lasted only a few months, due to her infidelity. After the breakup, Sarsfield returned to her parents home. The separation of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and his wife, Benita Martínez Pastoriza, occurred when Benita discovered correspondence between her husband and Sarsfield. This would be known as "complemento espiritual para este". Later, Sarsfield worked on Sarmiento's candidacy for the presidency, while she was in the United States. Sarmiento died on 11 September 1888. In the following years, Sarsfield traveled through Europe, Egypt and Palestine, returning to Argentina 20 years later. She published works that were fundamental pieces and referents of the political era through which the country passed. She died on 6 December 1924, although in the book of records of that cemetery where she buried is inscribed as "Aurelia Vélez de Ortiz, buried on December 7, 1924".

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