Gregorio Funes, an Argentine historian, born in Cordova, died there in 1820. He was educated at Cordova, entered holy orders, became dean in the cathedral church, and attempted to introduce into the university the study of the higher mathematics, the law of nations, the modern languages, music, and drawing. During the revolutionary tumults the possessions of his father were confiscated by the royalist party. He wrote Ensayo de la historia civil del Paraguay, Buenos Ayres y Tucuman (3 vols, small 4to, Buenos Ayres, 1816 et seq.), which contains an excellent epitome of the annals of a vast territory, of which but little was yet known in Europe.