Edgardo Enríquez

Edgardo Enríquez Frödden (1912 to 1996) was a Chilean physician, academic and minister of education under the government of Salvador Allende. He studied medicine at the University of Concepción from 1930 and graduated in 1936. From 1938 he served in the naval medical service, directed the Naval Hospital of Talcahuano from 1963 to 1969 and reached the rank of Captain of the Naval Medical Services Corps. He taught anatomy at the University of Concepción and the University of Chile from 1936 to 1972 and was rector of the University of Concepción from 1969 to 1972. He became minister of education in July 1973, a post that ended with the military overthrow of Allende on September 11, 1973. He was then arrested and imprisoned, and in 1976 went into exile in Mexico, where he stayed for about fourteen years.