Nicolás Palacios

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Nicolás Palacios, monument in the main square of his birthplace Santa Cruz (2009).
Monument to Nicolás Palacios (text of the inscription: "El carácter de un pueblo y no su inteligencia determina su evolución en la historia y dirige su destino." / Dt. The character of a person and not his intelligence determines his historical development and guides his fate ).

Nicolás Palacios (born 1854 in Santa Cruz ; died 1911 ) was a Chilean doctor and author known for his writings on the "Chilean race" and national identity.

Live and act

Nicolas Palacios was born in Santa Cruz in 1854 . He is considered a forerunner of the nationalist movement that reached its peak in the second decade of the twentieth century. His book Raza chilena ( The Chilean Race ) was published anonymously in 1904 (2nd edition 1918). His racist theories were echoed by the historian Francisco Antonio Encina (1874–1965) in his extensive Historia de Chile (History of Chile) and had a great influence on the young nationalist intellectuals of the next decade. They form the ideological backbone for many Chilean Nazi Groups. By the later Chilean dictator Pinochet (1915-2006), for example, the "Chilean race" was described in his Sintesis Geografica de Chile as follows: "as" of white color, of medium and strong stature, lively intelligence and pronounced national feeling ". Her "most prominent characteristics" include "physical resistance" and "work zeal". "

In 1907 was Nicolás Palacios eyewitness to the massacre in the School Santa Maria in the port city of Iquique , a mass murder of the Chilean military to Salpeterarbeitern .

Fonts

  • Raza Chilena. Libro escrito por un chileno i para los chilenos. [The Chilean breed. Book written by a Chilean for the Chileans]. Valparaíso , Imprenta i litografia Alemana de Gustavo Schäfer, 1904 (see memoriachilena.cl )

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ D. Belau, p. 321 - A website of the Chilean National Library provides the life data "1858-1927" (see memoriachilena.cl ).
  2. ↑ Nicolás Palacios - memoriachilena.cl (accessed on July 8, 2017)
  3. ↑ Nicolás Palacios - memoriachilena.cl (accessed on July 8, 2017)
  4. ↑ With full title: Síntesis geográfica de Chile: (Las relaciones espaciales, aspectos geofísicos, geohumanos, geografía política y económica de Chile) ; see. Juan Cristóbal Peña: La secreta vida literaria de Augusto Pinochet ("The secret literary life of Augusto Pinochet"). 2013 ( partial online view )
  5. ↑ quoted from: May God help - spiegel.de, March 17, 1980 (accessed on July 8, 2017)

literature

  • D. Belau: "Palacios, Nicolás", in: International Lexicon of Sociology , edited by Wilhelm Bernsdorf, Horst Knospe. Volume 1, 1980, p. 321 f. ( Online partial view )

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personal data
SURNAME Palacios, Nicolás
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean doctor and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Cruz (Chile)
DATE OF DEATH 1911