Agripina Samper Agudelo

Agripina Samper Agudelo
Born 4 March 1833(1833-03-04)
Honda, Cundinamarca, New Granada
Died 22 April 1892(1892-04-22) (aged 59)
Paris, France
Pen name Pía Rigán
Nationality Colombian
Genres Poetry
Literary movement Costumbrismo
Spouse(s) Manuel Ancízar
This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Samper and the second or maternal family name is Agudelo.

Agripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo[1] (4 March 1833 — 22 April 1892)[2] was a Colombian poet. Member of a literary family, she wrote prose and poetry under her pseudonym "Pía-Rigán", an anagram of her given name.

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Personal life

Agripina was born on 4 March 1833 to José María Samper Blanco and Tomasa Agudelo y Tafur, in the city of Honda when it was part of the Department of Cundinamarca, now present-day Tolima.[2] Her other two siblings were her older brother Miguel, a businessman and politician and the great-grandfather of Ernesto Samper Pizano, and José María, a writer and journalist. On 4 July 1857 she married Manuel Ancízar Basterra, a scientist and writer, and out this marriage were born Roberto (b. 1858), Pablo (b. 1859), Inés (b. 1860), Jorge (b. 1862), and Manuel (b. 1865).[3] When she widowed in 1882, she moved with her children to Paris, where she died on 22 April 1892.

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References

  1. ^ García Vásquez, Julio Cesar. "Ernesto Samper Pizano, Familiares Y Parentela" (in Spanish). Genealogía Colombiana (Family tree). Interconexion Colombia. http://www.interconexioncolombia.com/documentos/genealogia/tomo4/1.%20GENEALOGIA%20COLOMBIANA/1-4%20%20ERNESTO%20SAMPER%20PIZANO%20FAMILIARES%20Y%20PARENTELA.pdf. Retrieved 2010-11-03. 
  2. ^ a b Samper Ortega, Daniel, ed (1935-1936). "[Village Library of Colombia]" (in Spanish). Biblioteca Aldeana de Colombia (Bogotá: Editorial Minerva) (89): 96. OCLC 316816714. 
  3. ^ "[Colombian Anuary of Social History and Culture]" (in Spanish). Anuario colombiano de historia social y de la cultura (Bogotá: National University of Colombia) (26-27): 76. ISSN 0120-2456. OCLC 1586457.