Juan Bautista Alberdi ( Spanish. Juan Bautista Alberdi ; August 29, 1810 - June 19, 1884) - Argentine politician, diplomat, lawyer, political science theorist. It is considered one of the most influential liberal figures of Argentina of his time, although he spent most of his life in exile in Uruguay and Chile.
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| Date of Birth | August 29, 1810 |
| Place of Birth | San Miguel de Tucuman , Argentina |
| Date of death | June 19, 1884 (73 years) |
| Place of death | Neuilly-sur-Seine , France |
| Citizenship |  Argentina |
| Occupation | politician, diplomat, lawyer, theorist of political science |
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Biography
Born in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman . His mother, who is of Argentine descent, died in childbirth, his father was a rich trader with Basque roots. Alberdi was born in the year of the May Revolution , which his family actively supported. At an early age, he moved with his family to Buenos Aires, where he studied in high school with a specialization in the humanities, but in 1824 temporarily dropped out of school due to his strong hobby for music. He further studied law in Cordoba , completing his legal education in Montevideo in 1840.
He participated in the Generation 37 movement, a group of young and liberal-minded intellectuals who were heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and liberal thought, opposed the regime of President Juan Manuel de Rosas , against whom Alberdi wrote several pamphlets. In 1838, he went into voluntary exile and lived first in Montevideo, then in Europe, and later in Chile, where in a short time he wrote his famous book The Basics and Basic Provisions for the Political Organization of the Argentine Republic (Bases para la organizacin politica de la confederacin Argentina , 1852), which served as the basis for the Argentine constitution of 1852 [1] .
He returned to Argentina only after the Rosas regime was overthrown by Urkisa in 1852. When the question of adopting a new constitution arose, Alberdi sent its own version to the government, and many of his proposals were eventually implemented in the 1853 Constitution of Argentina .
Under the new regime, Alberdi became a diplomat and served in a number of European countries, but in 1862 he again left his homeland due to the reorganization of the Argentine Republic. He returned in 1878, but because of disagreements with Bartolomé Miter, he almost immediately emigrated to France, where he spent the last years of his life. Died June 18, 1884 in the suburbs of Paris [2] Neuilly-sur-Seine . His body was returned to Argentina and buried in the Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires.
Bibliography
- Alberdi y su tiempo , Jorge M. Mayer, Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 1963.
Literature
- Alberdi H. B. Crime of war . M., 1960
- Egorova A. Juan Bautista Alberdi - Argentina’s eminent thinker . - Latin America, 1970, No. 4
Notes
- ↑ Alberdi, Juan Bautista . Collier Encyclopedia (2000). The appeal date is March 13, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
- ↑ Alberdi, Juan Bautista . The appeal date is March 13, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.