Julio Gastón Retamal Favereau (November 14, 1933 – June 16, 2025) was a Chilean historian, genealogist, and philosopher.

Biography

Retamal was born on November 14, 1933, in Constitución. In 1966, he obtained a degree in philosophy with a major in history at the

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. While he was a student, he joined the Rehearsal Theater of the Catholic University (TEUC). In 1972, he obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the

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. In 1966, he was a visiting professor at the Universidad del Valle, Cali, and in 1977 at the Faculty of Letters in

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. Between August 1973 and August 1976, he was director of the Institute of History of the

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. Between 1976 and 1980, he was cultural attaché at the Chilean embassy in France. In 1983, he was appointed academic vice-rector of the Metropolitan University of Education Sciences, a position he held until 1985. In 1992, he was named a full member of the Chilean Academy of History. In 2003, he was appointed professor emeritus at the

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. He served until January 2017 as a professor of Modern History and Theory of History at the Adolfo Ibáñez and Gabriela Mistral universities. He died on June 16, 2025, at the age of 91.

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