{{Short description|Chilean historian (1874–1932)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{family name hatnote|Edwards|Vives|lang=Chilean}} {{Infobox philosopher | name = Alberto Edwards | image = Edwards, Alberto -f2.jpg | education = Pontifical Catholic University and University of Chile (LL.B.; 1896) | birth_date = {{birth date|1874|11|25|df=y}} | birth_place = Valparaíso, Chile | death_date = {{death date and age|1932|4|3|1874|11|25|df=y}} | death_place = Santiago, Chile | occupation = Politician, lawyer and historian | main_interests = Essay, philosophy of history | school_tradition = Conservative revolution, nationalism, authoritarianism | website = | institutions = Pontifical Catholic University of Chile|family=Edwards family}}
'''Luis Alberto Edwards Vives'''<ref name=bcn>{{cite web|url=http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Luis_Alberto_Edwards_Vives|title=Luis Alberto Edwards Vives|work=Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional|language=Spanish|access-date=25 September 2015|archive-date=5 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505035548/http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Luis_Alberto_Edwards_Vives|url-status=dead}}</ref> (25 November 1874 in Valparaíso – 3 April 1932 in Santiago) was a Chilean historian, nationalist politician and lawyer. He was a member of the influential Edwards family. His most famous work (highly influenced by Oswald Spengler and the German Conservative Revolution) was ''La fronda aristocrática en Chile'' (1928). This analyzed the history of Chile in the 19th century as a conflict between the authoritarian state and the aristocracy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-3516.html|title=Alberto Edwards: La Fronda Aristocrática en Chile|work=Memoria Chilena|language=Spanish|access-date=25 September 2015}}</ref>
== Politician == Edwards was member of the National (Montt-Varist) Party, and its deputy from 1909 to 1912 representing Valparaíso and Casablanca. In 1915 he founded the Nationalist Party<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sznajder|first=Mario|title=Politics in History: The Chilean radical right in the 20th century|url=https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/282/28242302009.pdf|url-status=live|website=redalyc.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306062836/https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/282/28242302009.pdf |archive-date=6 March 2021 }}</ref> along with Francisco Antonio Encina and Guillermo Subercaseaux.<ref name=bcn />
Edwards served as a Minister of Finance in the presidency of Emiliano Figueroa Larraín from November 1926 to February 1927.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Finance|first=United States Congress Senate Committee on|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oTPVAAAAMAAJ&dq=alberto+edwards%2C+minister+of+finance+1926&pg=PA1146|title=Sale of Foreign Bonds Or Securities in the United States: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 19 a Resolution Authorizing the Finance Committee of the Senate to Investigate the Sale, Flotation, and Allocation by Banks, Banking Institutions, Corporations, Or Individuals of Foreign Bonds Or Securities in the United States|date=1931|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}</ref> During the government of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, a ''proto-fascist'' president,<ref>Cristi, R. & Ruiz, C. (2016). ''El pensamiento conservador en Chile''. Editorial Universitaria, p. 13.</ref> he headed several Ministries: Education from October 1930 to April 1931; Foreign Affairs in July 1931; and Justice in late 1931.<ref name=bcn />
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