Juan Bautista Alberdi

Juan Bautista Alberdi (August 29, 1810 – June 19, 1884) was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat. Although he lived most of his life in exile in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Chile, he influenced the content of the Constitution of Argentina of 1853.

Juan Bautista Alberdi
Daguerreotype taken in Chile, dated between 1850 and 1853
Born(1810-08-29)August 29, 1810
San Miguel de Tucumán, United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata
DiedJune 19, 1884(1884-06-19) (aged 73)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Resting placeHouse of government of Tucumán
Other namesFigarillo
Notable workBases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolGeneration of '37's Classical liberalism - May Association
LanguageSpanish
Main interests
Politics
Law
Signature

Based on his classical liberal and federal constitutional ideas, Alberdi at the same time tried to satisfy contrary social interests and establish a balance between national political centralization and provincial administrative decentralization: considering that both solutions would contribute to the consolidation and development of the original being of the single nation.

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