About Osvaldo Silva Galdames
Lived 1940 – 2019 (aged 78). Osvaldo Silva Galdames was a historian.
Osvaldo Silva Galdames (24 May, 1940–2019) was a Chilean historian active within the field of prehistory. He was a founder of the academic history journals Cuadernos de Historia and Revista de Historia Indígena, as well being a driving force behind the establishment of the Magíster de Historia con mención en etnohistoria at the University of Chile. Among Silva's contributions to history was a proposal for a different chronology of the Inca rule in Chile.
He was born on 24 May 1940, in Santiago, being the son of Osvaldo Silva Rivera and Berta Galdames Ramírez. He was married with Paulina Dittborn Cordua.
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Chilean historian (1941-2019)
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Osvaldo Silva Galdames was born on 24 May 1940 in Santiago.
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Osvaldo Silva Galdames died on 3 March 2019 in Santiago.
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Osvaldo Silva Galdames was a historian.
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