Cipriano Barata

Cipriano Barata
Born	(1762-09-26)26 September 1762 Salvador,Captaincy of Bahia,Colonial Brazil
Died	7 June 1838(1838-06-07)(aged 75) Natal,Empire of Brazil

Cipriano José Barata de Almeida(26 September 1762 – 7 June 1838), better known asCipriano Barata,was a Brazilian physician and politician who was in favor ofBrazilian independence.He was a founding member of a Masonic Lodge, "The Knights of the Light Shop." He was also a journalist who started a newspaper in Portugal calledSentinel of Liberty.

Early life and education

Barata was born in Bahia, Brazil in 1762.Barata graduated from theUniversity of Coimbra,where he studied surgery, philosophy and mathematics and was introduced toEnlightenmentideas that were popular in academia at the time.

Career and political activity

Together with professor Francisco Muniz Barreto and others, he was a member of the firstMasonicLodge in Brazil, the "Knights of the Light Shop", founded inSalvadorin 1797. The following year, he attended the casting Bahia, being held by legal authorities afterward. Somesay that he was the editor of the Manifesto to the People from Bahia, which urged the people to revolt. He gained prominence as a member of a movement, Conjuração Baiana, that wanted independence for Brazil and the end of slavery. In 1800, he was arrested and released for his alleged involvement.After this point, he became a cane farmer in the town of Abrantes (currentCamaçari) and continued practicing as a doctor.

Barata fled to Portugal in 1832. Shortly after his arrival he started a newspaper calledSentinela da Liberdade(Sentinel of Liberty).

References

Bibliography

• MILK, Renato Lopes. Republicans and Libertarians. Radical thinkers in Rio de Janeiro (1822). Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian Civilization, 2000.
• SODRÉ, Nelson Werneck. The history of the press in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian Civilization, 1966.
• Vianna, Helium. Contribution to the History of the Brazilian Press (1812–1869). Rio de Janeiro: National Press, 1945. 664p.