Hernán Bosselin

Carlos Hernán Bosselin Correa (born 31 December 1943) is a Chilean politician who served as a deputy.

Biography Bosselin was born in Concepción on 31 December 1943. He was the son of Carlos Bosselin Urrejola and Lucía Correa Borquez.

In 1989, he married Nancy Masbernat Muñoz.

He completed his secondary education at Liceo José Victorino Lastarria and pursued higher studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, where he earned a degree in Legal and Social Sciences. His thesis was titled Una interpretación cristiana de los problemas sociales contemporáneos. He qualified as a lawyer on 6 May 1968.

During his university years, he distinguished himself academically, serving as a teaching assistant in Roman Law (1962–1963). He received the "Montenegro" Award as the best graduating student in 1966 and the Institute of Criminal Sciences Award as best student in 1964.

In his professional career, he specialized in civil, economic, and commercial litigation. He led the litigation area at the law firm Bosselin, Briones Irureta; Sánchez, Santelices Abogados. He also taught courses on savings and loans at the SINAP Productivity Center and authored various research works and essays on economic and legal matters.

Political career He began his political activities during his university years by joining the Christian Democratic Party. Within the party, he served on various study commissions, was elected national vice president, presided over the Christian Democratic lawyers, and founded the party's oversight commission.

In 1969, he joined the Legal Service of the Bernardo O’Higgins Savings Association as a lawyer, becoming head of its Legal Department in 1970 and serving as prosecutor between 1975 and 1976. He was among the lawyers who filed legal protection actions that enabled the circulation of the newspapers La Época and Fortín Mapocho in Santiago.

In the December 1989 parliamentary elections, he was elected Deputy for District No. 18 (Cerro Navia, Quinta Normal, and Lo Prado), Metropolitan Region of Santiago, for the 1990–1994 term. He obtained the highest vote total with 76,105 votes (37.04% of the validly cast ballots). In 1993, he sought re-election; however, the National Council of the Christian Democratic Party withdrew his candidacy, a decision he accepted.

After completing his parliamentary term, he returned to the practice of law.

Following the expulsion of Adolfo Zaldívar from the Christian Democratic Party in 2007, he resigned from the party in May 2008 and rejoined in 2015.