Eduardo Wilde

Eduardo Wilde (June 15, 1844 – September 5, 1913) was an Argentine physician, politician, and writer, and among the most prominent intellectual figures of the modernizing Generation of '80 in Argentina.

Eduardo Faustino Wilde was born in Tupiza, Bolivia, in 1844, to a mother from Tucumán (Argentina), and an English Argentine father from Buenos Aires. His father, Col. Diego Wilde a relative of the writer Oscar Wilde, temporarily fled from Argentina to Bolivia during the rule of Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas, and returned to Argentina after the latter’s fall in 1852. He was raised in Concepción del Uruguay, and attended the local Colegio Nacional (one of a system of public college preparatory schools), where among his classmates were future Presidents Julio Roca and Victorino de la Plaza.

Wilde enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in 1864, and as a student, he treated cholera patients during an 1867 outbreak; his own father died from the disease while a commander of Argentine troops in the brutal Paraguayan War in 1866. Following an internship at the General Women’s Hospital, he graduated with a Medical Degree in 1870, and despite his early epidemiological experience, wrote his thesis on hiccups. His efforts as an Army doctor in the Paraguayan front, and during the historic, 1871 yellow fever epidemic in Buenos Aires, however, earned him renown, and a professorship at the university in 1873. He first entered into public service with his appointment as the nation’s Director of Public Health by President Domingo Sarmiento.

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