of 1826, and the first (albeit temporary) centralized government in Argentina. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1825. Funes retired in Buenos Aires. One of his friends, Santiago Spencer Wilde, invited the cleric for a tour of his recently inaugurated Parque Argentino, the first public garden in Buenos Aires; as they walked in the hot southern hemisphere summer, Dean Gregorio Funes collapsed, and died at age 79. Funes was interred at the La Recoleta Cemetery, though his remains were later transferred to the Córdoba Cathedral. A town in the vicinity of his parish during the 18th century was named in honor (Deán Funes) upon its establishment in 1875. Bibliography Bischoff, Efraín. Historia de Córdoba. Buenos Aires: Plus Ultra, 1989. Carbia, Rómulo. La Revolución de Mayo y la Iglesia. Buenos Aires: Nueva Hispanidad, 2005. Calvo, Nancy, Di Stéfano, Roberto, and Gallo, Klaus. Los curas de la Revolución. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2002. References 1749 births 1829 deaths People from Córdoba, Argentina Argentine people of Spanish descent University of Alcalá alumni 18th-century Argentine Roman Catholic priests National University of Córdoba faculty 19th-century Argentine historians Argentine male writers Governors of Córdoba Province, Argentina Argentine journalists Male journalists Argentine diplomats Members of the American Antiquarian Society Male non-fiction writers 19th-century Argentine Roman Catholic priests