Eduardo Cavieres

Eduardo Lincoyán Cavieres Figueroa (16 August 1945 − 12 December 2021) was a Chilean historian and academic who won the Chilean National History Award in 2008.

His greatest contributions were in the field of Social and Economic history of Chile during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Likewise, he had collaborated in the social history of the Andean region shared by Bolivia, Peru and his country.

In 1976 he graduated as Historian at the History Institute of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV). In 1982 he concluded his master's degree in history in the Madison University. Then, in 1987 he finished his PhD at Essex University. He taught lessons at institutions the PUCV Institute of History, the University of Chile or the University of Playa Ancha.

On 22 November 2018, he was invested as an Emeritus Professor of his alma mater.

Cavieres died on 12 December 2021, at the age of 76.