Eugenio Cambaceres

Eugenio Cambaceres ( born August 8, 1843 in Buenos Aires, † 1888 in Paris) was an Argentine politician and writer.

Life

Cambaceres was the son of a French immigrant and his wife Rufina Alair, who was of Italian descent; the engineer and politician Antonio Cambaceres was his older brother.

Cambaceres studied law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires ( UBA) and, after successfully completing his studies for several years as a lawyer. Politically interested and engaged he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Under the presidency, there was a scandal when Cambaceres earned a legislative initiative to the strict separation of church and state. Some time later he publicly accused his own party of corruption and electoral fraud.

In 1876 Cambaceres down all his political offices and devoted all his time to literature. He married in his hometown Luisa Bacichi and had with her a daughter who later writer Rufina Cambaceres ( 1883-1902 ).

1888 Cambaceres took a trip to Europe. There he died at the age of 45 in Paris.

Works (selection)

• Pot- pourri. Novela. , 1881.
• Silbidos de un vago. Novela. 1884
• Sin Rumbo. Novela. In 1885.
• En la sangre. Novela. , 1887.

• Obras completas. Castellví, Santa Fe, 1968 ( ed. by Eduardo M. Danero ).