Julio César Jobet

{{Short description|Chilean Marxist historian (1912–1980)}}

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| name = Julio César Jobet

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|1|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = Perquenco, Chile

| death_date = 1980

| death_place = Santiago, Chile

| fields = History of Chile, Marxist historiography

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Julio César Jobet Bourquez (January 18, 1912 – 1980) was a Chilean Marxist historian. He was descendant of French and Spanish agricultural colonists who arrived to La Araucanía Region in the aftermath of the Occupation of Araucanía.{{Cite journal

|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-96916.html

|title=Julio César Jobet

|journal=Memoria Chilena

|publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile

|access-date=December 30, 2015

|language=es

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007022525/http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-96916.html

|archive-date=October 7, 2014

}} He was a detractor of historian Jaime Eyzaguirre whom he criticized in harsh terms.{{cite book |last1=Góngora |first1=Álvaro |last2=de la Taille |first2=Alexandrine|last3=Vial |first3=Gonzalo |author-link3=Gonzalo Vial Correa |title=Jaime Eyzaguirre en su tiempo |language=es |publisher=Zig-Zag |pages=197–198 }}

Memoria Chilena lists his most important works as:

• Los fundamentos del marxismo (1939)
• Santiago Arcos Arlegui y la sociedad de la Igualdad: Un socialista utopista Chileno (1942)
• Ensayo crítico del desarrollo económico-social de Chile (1951)
• Luis Emilio Recabarren: los orígenes del movimiento obrero y del socialismo chileno (1955)
• Los precursores del pensamiento social de Chile (1956)
• El Partido Socialista de Chile (1971).