Federico Santa María
Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Federico Santa María Carrera (1845–1925) was a Chilean businessperson, philanthropist, known for founding Federico Santa María Technical University.<ref name="USM">Template:Cite web</ref> Santa María was a member of the Santa María and Carrera family,<ref name="USM"/>
Early life
Federico Santa María Carrera was born on 15 August 1845 in Valparaíso, to Juan Antonio Santa María Artigas and of Magdalena Carrera Aguirre.<ref name="USM"/> Through his mother Santa María was of Basque descent, and was the great-grandson of Juan José Pedro Carrera, a soldier and hero of the Chilean Independence, and Chilean Independence campaigner Template:Ill.<ref name="USM"/><ref name="Chambers">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Grisar">Template:Cite news</ref>
Santa María was the sixth of nine siblings, and was the younger brother of Template:Ill, a lawyer and Radical Party politician.<ref name="USM"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
Template:More ref Santa María made his huge fortune in the sugar markets of Paris, where he arrived when he was very young. His importance in the sugar market was considerable: he became a major power in the French economy. During World War I he closed down all his businesses, declaring that he did not want to profit from war. He also supported the French Army, donating clothes and weapons for an entire regiment.
However, once the war ended, in 1922 he started to purchase important quantities of sugar in the stock market. As analysts later declared that sugar production would be at a deficit that year, this led to enormous profits for Santa Maria. For this success he was investigated by the French national assembly, but it was determined that he had acted within legal bounds.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Personal life
Template:More ref Federico Santa Maria was a very atypical millionaire for his time. Profoundly anti-clerical, he never got married yet lived together for decades with the French woman Anna Guillaud.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Because he had no descendants, he gave his entire fortune to his hometown Valparaíso for the founding of a technical and engineering school. The result of his legacy was the Federico Santa María Technical University.
He was a distant relative of famous Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau.