Jaime Eyzaguirre was a Chilean lawyer, essayist and historian.
14 Facts About Jaime Eyzaguirre
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Jaime Eyzaguirre is variously recognized as a writer of Spanish traditionalist or conservative historiography in his country.
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Jaime Eyzaguirre started to court Adriana Philippi in 1929 and married her in 1934.
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The PUC founded its Pedagogy School in 1943 and contracted Jaime Eyzaguirre to be in charge of the History of Chile classes.
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Jaime Eyzaguirre was assisted by Mario Gongora is some classes.
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Apart from this part-time work Jaime Eyzaguirre was part-time teacher at Liceo Aleman.
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At the Pedagogy School, Jaime Eyzaguirre met Ricardo Krebs, who was history teacher but had rather few contacts, and introduced him to the Catholic intellectual elite of Santiago.
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Jaime 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.
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In Spain, Jaime Eyzaguirre held a course on Chilean political and constitutional history at Universidad Central de Madrid.
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Jaime Eyzaguirre's stay in Spain made him target of attacks in Chile from those critical of Francoist Spain, in particular from people associated with the National Falange party.
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Personally, Jaime Eyzaguirre admired the stoic stance of the isolated Francoist Spain against both Soviet and Western pressure but never propagandised for Francoist Spain in Chile.
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Jaime Eyzaguirre despised 19th century writers such as Jose Victorino Lastarria and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento because he considered they "ruptured" the historical links to Spain and characterized their views as "apostasy".
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Mario Cespedes said in reference to Jaime Eyzaguirre's writings on the conquest of Chile that the conquest was a search for Indian labourers and "not a chivalrous journey".