Daniel Vidart

Daniel Darío Vidart Bartzabal (1920 - 2019) was an Uruguayan anthropologist and writer.

Between 1940 and 1945 he studied Law and Social Sciences at the University of the Republic. He then studied Engineering between 1978 and 1984 at the National University of Colombia.

From 1952 to 1958 he was the Deputy Director of the Broadcasting Service of Uruguay.

From 1972 to 1973 he was Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Chile. From 1985 to 1988 he was Professor of Anthropology at the University of the Republic.

In 2014 he donated his personal library for the creation of the Daniel Vidart Library in the Fortín de Santa Rosa spa, in the department of Canelones. Daniel Vidart was foundational in social areas, geography and anthropology. He was proud of being a descendant of Artigas, of having Charrúa blood in his veins and of being a countryman, in addition to having passions linked to discovering, investigating and understanding.