Carlos Vicuña Fuentes
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Carlos Vicuña | |
|---|---|
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 21 May 1933 – 21 May 1937 | |
| Constituency | 7th Departmental Grouping |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 August 1886 Rengo, Chile |
| Died | 29 March 1977 (aged 90) Santiago, Chile |
| Party | |
| Spouse |
Teresa Lagarrigue Cádiz
(m. 1917) |
| Relations | Cecilia Vicuña (granddaughter) Leonora Vicuña (granddaughter) Eliana Navarro (daughter-in-law) |
| Children | 6, including Teresa Vicuña Rosa Vicuña |
| Profession | Lawyer, writer, teacher |
Carlos Vicuña Fuentes (3 August 1886 – 29 March 1977) was a Chilean writer, lawyer, teacher and politician.[1]
He served as a deputy for the 7th Departmental Grouping (Santiago, First District) during the 1933–1937 legislative period and was a prominent intellectual figure in Chilean public life throughout the 20th century.[1]
Vicuña Fuentes was born in Rengo to José Miguel Vicuña O’Kingston and Elvira Fuentes Conti.
He studied at the Liceo de Santiago, the Instituto Nacional, and the Instituto Pedagógico of the University of Chile. He qualified as a teacher of French on 20 December 1909 and later studied law at the same university, qualifying as a lawyer on 25 September 1914. His thesis was titled La familia en la civilización occidental.[1]
In 1910, he taught at the Night School for Workers established by the Federation of Students of Chile. He later served as a professor at the Instituto Nacional and the Instituto Pedagógico, from which he was dismissed on 5 September 1921.[1]
Between 1926 and 1930, he worked as a teacher in Panama and Argentina, including as a professor of English in Mar del Plata. He was later reinstated at the Instituto Pedagógico, serving as its director in 1931, and went on to become dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Chile.[1]
As a lawyer, he defended poet Pablo Neruda during periods of political persecution and, in 1975, made his final appearance before the Supreme Court in defense of his grandson, who had been detained by the DINA.[1]
He authored numerous works spanning literature, logic, politics and social criticism, including Tratado elemental de análisis lógico de la proposición castellana (1919), En las prisiones políticas de Chile (1932), La tiranía en Chile (1938), La caída del Coronel y otros ensayos políticos (1951), El caballo político y la escatocracia occidental (1952), and Corrupción irreversible (1966).[1]