Alberto Ezcurra Medrano

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Alberto Ezcurra Medrano
Born
Alberto Felipe León Ezcurra Medrano

(1909-06-28)June 28, 1909
Argentine
Occupation(s)Historian and professor
Notable workCatolicismo y nacionalismo (1936)
ChildrenAlberto Ezcurra Uriburu
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Alberto Ezcurra Medrano was an Argentine historian and nationalist activist.[1]

One of the most important thinkers of Argentine

Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara.[3][4]

Biography

Alberto Ezcurra Medrano was born in Buenos Aires in 1909. His family was related to Encarnación Ezcurra, wife of Argentine caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas and an important political figure of her time.[4]

He worked as a history professor at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and rose to intellectual prominence with his studies about the Argentine Confederation. In 1939 Ezcurra founded the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas Juan Manuel de Rosas to promote historical revisionism in Argentina.[1]

Ezcurra also stood out as a writer for many nationalist magazines and newspapers like La Nueva República, Baluarte, Crisol and Nueva Política.[1]

He had seven children, of which three became priests.[1]

Ideology

Ezcurra adhered to

reactionarism, corporatism and authoritarianism. His ideas were close to that of Argentine priest Julio Meinvielle, despite being less pragmatic.[2]

Ezcurra summed up his ideology as proposing "a strong government and a corporatist regime as a reaction against liberal individualism". He considered

marxist materialism", that notwithstanding was to be tempered by Catholic doctrine in order to succeed and avoid falling into totalitarianism.[2][5]

A Catholic

integralist, Ezcurra supported Gelasian Diarchy and idealised the Middle Ages as a peak of Western civilisation marked by social harmony and order. According to his vision, the West had undergone a progressive decadence since the Reformation and the Age of Enlightenment that was to be reverted by the restoration of an appropriate relationship between Church and State.[2][5]

He saw Argentine

pan-Hispanism, holding a Traditionalist perspective based on restoring a supposedly lost Christian order of society that would return Argentina to its actual national character.[2][5]

Ezcurra had a close ideological relationship with European

National Socialism as a "neopagan" and "Antichristian" consequence of the Protestant Reformation.[1][5]

Main works

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Angelini, Lisandro (June 2017). "El nacionalismo católico argentino y el combate contra el paganismo nazi en la década de 1930". Brumario. 16: 46–52.
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  3. S2CID 238968956
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  5. ^ a b c d e Ezcurra Medrano, Alberto (1939). Catolicismo y nacionalismo. Buenos Aires: Adsum.
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