Magdalena Merbilháa
Magdalena Merbilháa (born 21 May 1973) is a Chilean historian. Similarly, she is also a journalist, columnist, television personality and academic.
Merbilháa has been a teacher at institutions such as the University for Development. She has also been known for broadcasting cultural and historical content on Canal 13 Cable (13C), a job she has done alongside Bárbara Bustamante.
She is a regular panelist on the debate show program, Sin filtros. On the other hand, she is also a columnist for media outlets such as La Tercera, El Líbero and Radio Agricultura. She has also defined herself as a conservative woman aligned with Roger Scruton's ideas.
Biography
Magdalena Merbilháa was born in the capital city, Santiago de Chile, on May 21, 1973. Magdalena is the daughter of Arnaldo Merbilháa Coustere, an Argentine of Basque-French descent, and the jurist, Alicia Romo Román. She completed all her schooling at the Santa Úrsula School in Vitacura, an institution that recognized her among its outstanding students.
Magdalena began her academic career at the Gabriela Mistral University (UGM), and then completed a master's degree at Kingston University in London. Later, in 2001, Magdalena became a shareholder in her alma mater, which, at that time, was financially controlled by her mother, Alicia. During that decade, she created her foundation 'Red Cultural', which she established once her family left the UGM.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically on June 14, 2020, Canal 13 began to broadcast her program Viaje por el tiempo.
In 2022, Merbilháa began to appear frequently on Sin filtros, which she became famous for her opposition to the left-leaning constitutional project presented by the Constitutional Convention.
Works
Books
- Chapters El Cristianismo y Las órdenes de Militares en: Libro «Occidente Historia y Cultura» (2014) Editorial Sankgreal y Origo Ediciones, Santiago.
- Nuestro Octubre Rojo (2020) Ediciones El Líbero. En co-autoría con Cristian León
- Anarquismo, una historia (2023) Ediciones El Líbero (Editora del libro)
Papers
- What’s Wrong With the World. The Charleston Review (2010)
- ¿Napoleón, fue derrotado en Waterloo? Revista Escenarios Actuales. Nº2. Agosto de 2015. ISSN 0717-6805
- Lo que llevó al mundo a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Revista Escenarios Actuales. Nº1. Año 21. Mayo de 2016. ISSN 0717680
- Mentes educadas ¿Cómo las herramientas cognitivas dan forma a nuestro entendimiento?. Revista de Historia y Geografía (2018)
- Dickens’s World. The Charleston Review (2020)