Jaime Eyzaguirre
| Jaime Eyzaguirre | |
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Portrait of Eyzaguirre by Jorge Delano Frederik.
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| Born |
21 December 1908 Santiago, Chile |
| Died | 17 September 1968 (aged 59) |
| Fields | History of Chile, Hispanic studies |
| Notable students |
Gabriel Guarda Jaime Guzmán Armando de Ramón Hugo Montes Ricardo Lagos Andrés Bianchi |
| Influences |
Manuel Lacunza Ramiro de Maeztu Léon Bloy |
| Influenced | Gonzalo Vial Correa |
| Notable awards |
Order of Isabella the Catholic Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise |
Jaime Eyzaguirre (21 December 1908 – 17 September 1968) was a Chilean lawyer, essayist and historian. He is variously recognized as a writer of traditionalist or conservativehistoriography in his country.
Eyzaguirre was born into a religious upper class family in Santiago. As young man he studied law in the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) and was member of the Catholic student organization Asociación Nacional de Estudiantes Católicos. During his studies he was influenced by the Jesuit Fernando Vives and the writings of Manuel Lacunza.
Eyzaguirre started to court Adriana Philippi in 1929 and married her in 1934.
The PUC founded its Pedagogy School (Escuela de Pedagogía) in 1943 and contracted Eyzaguirre to be in charge of the History of Chile (Historia de Chile) classes. Most of the students of the time were priests, nuns and brothers. He was assisted by Mario Góngora is some classes. Apart from this part-time work Eyzaguirre was also part-time teacher at Liceo Alemán. At the Pedagogy School Eyzaguirre met Ricardo Krebs, who was also history teacher but had rather few contacts, and introduced him to the Catholic intellectual elite of Santiago. His salary is reported to have been low at PUC and when "raised" it mostly had to do with the currency inflation experienced in Chile. Nevertheless he was allowed to rent a small local owned by the Archbishopric of Santiago at a relatively low price. Here, Eyzaguirre ran a small bookshop called El Arbol until the late 1950s when it was closed. Despite his economic hardships he twice refused to be assigned ambassador to Spain. Eyzaguirre thought any diplomatic work he did would need to compete with his work as historian and therefore he would not be able to accomplish a dedicated work in diplomacy. At the same time the writings of Léon Bloy provided him with comfort about his economic hardship.
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