Tobias Barreto
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Born | Tobias Barreto de Meneses 7 June 1839 Vila de Campos do Rio Real,Sergipe,Brazil |
Died | 26 June 1889 Recife,Pernambuco,Brazil | (aged 50)
Occupation | Poet,philosopher,critic,jurist |
Nationality | Brazilian |
Alma mater | Faculdade de Direito do Recife |
Subject | Social engagement |
Literary movement | Romanticism |
Tobias Barreto de Meneses(June 7, 1839 – June 26, 1889) was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, jurist and literary critic.[1]He is famous for creating the "Condorism"and revolutionizing Brazilian Romanticism and poetry. He is patron of the 38th chair of theBrazilian Academy of Letters.[2]
Life
[edit]Barreto was born in Vila de Campos do Rio Real (renamed "Tobias Barreto" in his honor in 1909), a town in the southern part of Sergipe. He learnt his first letters with Manuel Joaquim de Oliveira Campos, and he also studiedLatinwithpriestDomingos Quirino. Barreto was so dedicated to the course that, in the future, he would become aLatinprofessor inItabaiana.[2]
In 1861 he left for Bahia in order to attend aseminary;however, having soon realized that it was not his vocation, he quit. Between 1864 and 1865 he became a private tutor in many subjects. He also tried to become a Latin (and laterPhilosophy) teacher at the Ginásio Pernambucano, but was not successful at the institution.
Barreto was an enthusiast of theGerman culture,such an interest being induced by the reading ofErnst HaeckelandLudwig Büchner.Following Haeckel, he was a noted earlyDarwinianin Brazil.[2][3][1]For this reason he established aGerman language-newspaper,Der Deutsche Kämpfer(GermanforThe German Fighter). It was short-lived and had little influence.
Moving away toEscada,he married acolonel's daughter. He spent ten years there before returning to Recife. He died there in 1889 at a friend's house.
Works
[edit]- Brasilien, wie es ist(German forBrazil as it is— 1876)
- Ensaio de Pré-História da Literatura Alemã(1879)
- Filosofia e Crítica(1879)
- Estudos Alemães(1879)
- Dias e Noites(1881)
- Menores e Loucos(1884)
- Discursos(1887)
- Polêmicas(1901; posthumous)
References
[edit]- ^abLopes, Nei (2015).Dicionário escolar afro-brasileiro(in Portuguese). São Paulo: Selo Negro. p. 163.ISBN9788587478955.
- ^abc"Biografia"(in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Academia Brasileira de Letras. 2016.Retrieved2016-08-04.
- ^Glick, Thomas F. (2013)."Darwinism in Latin America".The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Retrieved2016-08-04.
External links
[edit]- Another biography of Tobias Barreto(in Portuguese)
- Poems by Barreto(in Portuguese)