Tobias Barreto

In thisPortuguese name,the first or maternalfamily nameisBarretoand the second or paternal family name isMeneses.

Tobias Barreto
Born	Tobias Barreto de Meneses (1839-06-07)7 June 1839 Vila de Campos do Rio Real,Sergipe,Brazil
Died	26 June 1889(1889-06-26)(aged 50) Recife,Pernambuco,Brazil
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.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.

Life

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.

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.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

• 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)

External links

• Another biography of Tobias Barreto(in Portuguese)
• Poems by Barreto(in Portuguese)