Eduardo Torres Cuevas

Died: August 31, 2025

Academic, historian and pedagogue. Member of the Cuban Academy of Language. Full Professor and Doctor of Historical Sciences. National Prize for History, Félix Varela Prize.

He taught literacy in the Sierra Maestra, graduated in History from the University of Havana, where he taught the History of Philosophy as a graduate professor.

He has been a researcher and professor in various faculties of the University of Havana, at the Enrique José Varona Higher Pedagogical Institute and the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana, among other prestigious teaching centers.

He served as President of the Casa de Altos Estudios Don Fernando Ortiz; director of the journal Debates Americanos and of the publishing house Imagen Contemporánea.

Member of the National Commission of Scientific Degrees of the Republic of Cuba, of the National Court of History for the defense and granting of scientific degrees and of the advisory councils of the Editorial Ciencias Sociales, the Center for Martian Studies and the Institute of History of Cuba. He is a member of the National Union of Historians of Cuba, the Association of Caribbean Historians, the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and the Academy of Sciences of New York.

Torres Cuevas was honored at the XVI International Book Fair. Visiting Professor at the universities of Paris VIII and Perpignan, France, and at the German universities of Leipzig and Rostock and is an associate professor at Aix-en-Provence.

He has participated in various congresses at national and foreign universities.

Since April 2007 he was director of the National Library "José Martí".

Publications

Anthology of Medieval Thought (1975)

José Antonio Saco. Concerning Slavery and Its History (1982)

History of the University of Havana, 2 vols., with Ramón de Armas and Ana Cairo (1984)

The Controversy of Slavery. José Antonio Saco (1984)

The Visible Soul of Cuba: The Cuban Revolutionary Party (1984)

Slavery and Society, with Eusebio Reyes Fernández (1986)

Bishop Espada. Enlightenment, Reform and Anti-Slavery (1990)

Félix Varela. The Origins of Cuban Science and Conscience (1995)

Antonio Maceo: The Ideas that Support the Weapon (1995)

History and the Craft of the Historian (1996)

Works. Félix Varela, 3 vols (1997)

History of Cuba. 1492-1898. Formation and Liberation of the Nation in collaboration with O. Loyola Vega (2001)

José Antonio Saco. Works, 5 vols., introduction and selection (2001)

José Antonio Saco. History of Slavery, 6 vols., introduction and selection (2002)

New Version of Bishop Espada. Works, introduction and selection (2003)

History of Cuban Thought, vol. I "Formation and Liberation of Cuban Thought" (1510-1867)", tome 1 "Origins and Formation of Cuban Thought" (2004); tome 2 "Formative Controversies of Cuban Thought (1790-1867) (2005)

History of Cuban Freemasonry. Six Essays (2005)

Sartre-Cuba. Cuba-Sartre. Hurricane, Furrow, Seeds (2005)

The Jesuits in Cuba, with Edelberto Leiva, published in digital edition by the foundations Ignacio Larramendi and Mapfre América in the work Three Great Questions of the History of Iberoamerica, (2005)