Ángela Romera Vera

Ángela Constantina Romera Vera (11 March 1912 – 4 June 1990) was an Argentine legal scholar. Her country's first woman ambassador, she served as Argentina's representative in Panama from 1958 to 1962.

Ángela Romera Vera
Ambassador of Argentina to Panama
In office
October 1958 – April 1962
PresidentArturo Frondizi
Personal details
Born
Ángela Constantina Romera Vera

(1912-03-11)11 March 1912
Córdoba Province, Argentina
Died4 June 1990(1990-06-04) (aged 78)
Santa Fe, Argentina
Education
OccupationLegal scholar

Biography

Ángela Romera Vera was born in Córdoba Province on 3 March 1912.[1] At age four she emigrated to Spain, where she studied law and philosophy at the University of Zaragoza and the Complutense University of Madrid. At the latter, she was a student of José Ortega y Gasset. She returned to Argentina in 1936 after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.[1]

She ratified her doctorate in legal and social sciences at the National University of the Littoral (UNL) in Santa Fe, where she served as a full professor of sociology and interim adjunct of philosophy of law.[2] She was also a teacher at the Faculty of Education Sciences in Paraná, and taught philosophy, letters, and education sciences in Rosario. She was a member of the Directive Council of Law and the UNL Superior Council.[2] In 1958, she played a prominent role, along with other women, in the reform of the university statute.[2][3]

That October, she was appointed ambassador to Panama by President Arturo Frondizi.[4] She was the first Argentine woman to hold the position of ambassador.[3][5] She left the embassy in April 1962.[6]

Ángela Romera Vera died in Santa Fe on 4 June 1990.[1]

In 2012, she was the subject of a tribute by the UNL Cultural Forum.[5]

References
  1. "Junio: mes de las Letras" [June: Month of Letters]. Sepa Argentina (in Spanish). 1 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  2. "Mujeres reformistas en la historia de la UNL" [Women Reformers in UNL History]. El Litoral (in Spanish). 8 March 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  3. "Reportaje a Ángela Romero Vera, primera embajadora argentina, 1958" [Report on Ángela Romero Vera, First Argentine Ambassador, 1958] (in Spanish). Radio y Televisión Argentina. 24 October 1958. Archived from the original on 29 October 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  4. "Decreto No. 7587/1958". Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina (in Spanish). 23 October 1958. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  5. "La UNL recordó a la Dra. Romera Vera" [UNL Remembers Dr. Romera Vera]. El Litoral (in Spanish). 16 November 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  6. "Decreto No. 3042/1962". Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina (in Spanish). 24 April 1962. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
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