Juan Bautista Alberdi

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Alberdi, Juan Bautista (1810—1884)

Alberdi was an Argentine political philosopher, patriot, and diplomat. Because of his opposition to Manuel de Rosas, Alberdi spent years of exile in Uruguay, Chile, and in Europe. When Rosas was overthrown by Justo José de Urquiza in 1852, Alberdi returned and served on a number of diplomatic missions.

His major work was Bases y puntos de partida para la organización de la república argentina (1852). Many of his suggestions were incorporated into the Argentine constitution of 1853.

After Urquiza was defeated in 1861, Alberdi moved to Paris and wrote political tracts against Bartolomé Mitre and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. He and President Sarmiento, however, were both anticlerical and were opposed to the Catholic Church in Argentina. {CE; EU; WAS, conversations with Hugo Estrella.}