Eduardo Wilde

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Eduardo Wilde

Eduardo Wilde (born June 15, 1844 in Tupiza , Department Potosí , † September 5, 1913 in Brussels ) was an Argentine doctor, diplomat, politician and writer.

Life

Wilde was descended from English immigrants on his father's side . He was the son of the doctor Diego Wilde and his wife, a Criolla from the province of Tucumán . His parents fled into exile in Bolivia during the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas , where he was born in 1844.

After returning home, Wilde visited the Colegio Nacional (founded in 1849 by Justo José de Urquiza ) in Concepción del Uruguay ( Entre Ríos province ). He then studied medicine at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and was able to complete this course very successfully in 1870 with his dissertation "El hipo" (The Hiccups).

Wilde had already distinguished himself during his studies by helping with a cholera epidemic and he was also widely praised for his selflessness in combating the yellow fever epidemic in 1871. In 1872 he accepted a position as a medicine professor at the UBA. Politically interested and committed, he was elected as a member of the Argentine Congress. In 1882, President Julio Argentino Roca appointed him Minister of Education and Justice. He resigned this office in 1886 and served as Minister of the Interior until 1889.

That year Wilde switched to the diplomatic service. He first represented his country in the USA and later at the Spanish court in Madrid . From there he went to the Dutch court in the same office and from there to Brussels. There he died at the age of 69 and found his final resting place in the La Recoleta cemetery ( Buenos Aires ).

Wilde published his famous short story "Tini" in 1881, which tells the story of the sudden death of a child from diphtheria during an epidemic in Buenos Aires.

Works (selection)

Non-fiction
  • El hipo . 1870.
Fiction
  • Prometeo & Cía . 1899.
  • Tiempo perdido . 1931 (2 vols.)
Work editions
  • Obras completas . Buenos Aires 1917/39 (19 vol.).
  • Obras completas . Buenos Aires 1923 (15 vol.).

literature

  • Bruno, Paula, Pioneros culturales de la Argentina. Biografías de una época, 1860-1910 , Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI Editores, 2011.
  • Jolanda H. Buffa Peyrot: Contribución a la bibligrafia de Eduardo Wilde . Fondo Nacional de la Artes, Buenos Aires 1967.
  • Enrique Díaz Araujo: Eduardo Wilde. El ideólogo argentino del ochenta . Mendoza 1967.
  • Florencio Escardó: Eduardo Wilde . Rueda, Buenos Aires 1959.
  • Liliana J. Ferrano: Eduardo Wilde. Pensamiento y acción de un agnostico argentino . Universidad Nacional, Mendoza 2007, ISBN 978-950-774-114-2 .
  • Gastón Gori: Eduardo Wilde . Santa Fe 1962.
  • Cristina Iglesia: Europa de remate. Experiencia y relato en “Viajes y observaciones. Cartas a la Prensa, 1892 “de Eduardo Wilde . In: Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle (Ed.): Ficciones y silencios fundacionales. Literaturas y culturas postcoloniales an América LAtina, siglo XIX . Iberoamericana, Madrid, ISBN 84-8489-101-1 .
  • Dieter Reichardt: Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-518-38828-2 , pp. 129-130.
  • César Tiempo : Eduardo Wilde. El gran humorista e higienista argentino. A 50 años de su muerte . In: Cultura , No. 30 (1963), pp. 71-78.
  • Noemi Vergara de Bietti: Humorista del ochenta. Eduardo Wilde ... . Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1976.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Acuña, Leopoldo: Eduardo Wilde , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (ed.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century , CH Beck Munich 1995, p. 381; 2nd ed. Medical dictionary. From antiquity to the present , Springer Heidelberg, Berlin et.al. 2001, p. 332.

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personal data
SURNAME Wilde, Eduardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilde, Eduardo Faustino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine writer, doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Tupiza , Potosi Department
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1913
Place of death Brussels