Jaime do Inso

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Jaime do Inso as a naval lieutenant

Jaime Correira do Inso (* 18th December 1880 in the town of Nossa Senhora da Graça , county Nisa , Portalegre District , Portugal , † 1967 ) was a Portuguese naval officer, author and orientalist .

Life

The officers of the Pátria in Rio de Janeiro 1906
The Pátria before Timor 1912

At the beginning of the 20th century, Inso entered the naval school as an ensign . From 1903 he completed his service at sea. On board the troop carrier África , he crossed the Mediterranean and drove to Macau for the first time . The return trip led to Mozambique , Angola and Cape Verde .

In 1904 Inso was transferred to the Pátria gunboat . From the spring of 1905, the Pátria was part of the naval area ( Divisão Naval ) South Atlantic , whose base was in the Angolan Luanda . For nine months the gunboat mapped the most important ports in Brazil and was the first warship to travel up the Amazon as far as Manaus . In mid-1906 the boat returned to Lisbon after a short stay on Cape Verde . Here Inso was promoted to lieutenant second degree. Back in Angola, he served a year in the naval depot before returning to the Pátria as a member of the Marine Corps. In 1908 the Pátria was transferred to the Macau naval base for use in the Far East fleet. Here she went against pirates, among other things.

From 1909 Inso worked for the annals of the Clube Militar Naval . With "Apontamentos sobre Movimentos Atmosféricos" ( Notes on atmospheric movements ) he wrote an article on how ships could avoid cyclones. In 1910, the year the monarchy fell and Portugal became a republic, an article about deficiencies in the Portuguese navy followed.

Under the command of Lieutenant Gago Coutinho , Inso came to Portuguese Timor with the Pátria in 1912 . He reported in detail in his book Em Socorro de Timor on the suppression of the Manufahi rebellion , in which the Pátria was significantly involved. For the defense of Baucau from June 29th to July 25th, Inso received a commendation from the commander of the naval station in Macau. Another mission followed against rebels in Oecussi .

Inso served in the Marine Corps and the Divisão Naval de Instrução e Manobra , later as a garrison officer of the cruiser São Gabriel , with which he made his last trip to Angola from September to April 1914. That year, Inso was promoted to first lieutenant (1 ° tenente). On the subject of ballistics and artillery , he published the article "Preliminares do Tiro".

Inso spent the next eight years on land as an adjutant of the Marine Corps, section head in the Department of Repartição da Majoria General da Armada and as an artillery instructor at the Naval School. Then he came aboard the frigates D. Fernando II e Glória and the cruisers Adamastor and Carvalho Araújo . The Carvalho Araújo brought 1922's plane Insos former commander Gago Coutinho, with whom he had crossed first the South Atlantic. In 1919 Inso was promoted to lieutenant captain ( capitão-tenente ).

In mid-1923 Inso took over the post of port captain of Vila Real de Santo António , where he stayed for two years. He then returned to Macau, where he took command of the Pátria in the waters of China for three years , which fell into civil war at that time . For his support of Spanish pilots on the flight from Madrid to Manila , Inso received the First Class Cross of the Order of Merit at Sea from the Spanish King in 1927 . It was Inso's farewell to East Asia.

On his return to Lisbon in mid-1929, he published a series of chronicles, travelogues and short stories that soon made him one of the most popular writers on the history of Macau and the Portuguese in China, alongside Camilo Pessanha and Wenceslau de Morães . Inso also exchanged letters with other orientalists.

Until 1938, Inso served limited time at sea as chief officer on the cruiser Vasco da Gama and as commander of the frigate D. Fernando II e Glória . For two years he was an official defender at the Naval Court at the General Command of the Navy, later Inso was an inspection officer and served in various commissions on personnel matters.

In the 1930s, Inso published numerous articles on Macau and China. His book A Caminho do Oriente was published in 1932 and another year later with Visões da China , in which he summarized various of his articles and also printed some previously unpublished letters from Wenceslau de Moraes, which the Portuguese consul in Kobe had sent him between 1913 and 1927 . The monumental work China followed in twelve volumes in 1936 . The luxuriously designed edition was only given to subscribers and became a very successful reference work on the Asian country.

In 1931, Inso received a commendation from the Minister of the Navy for his contribution to a Portuguese colonial exhibition in Antwerp . In 1933 Inso represented the Navy at the Geographical Society's colonial week in Lisbon. Again he received a commendation. For the event, Inso wrote an article for the society's annals. In the following years he continued to work on the history of Portuguese warships and the Far East, for example with the thesis paper A Colonização eo Problema do Oriente Português ( The Colonization and the Problem of the Portuguese Orient ), which he presented at the first Colonization Congress in Porto in 1934 .

In 1935 he was promoted to frigate captain (capitão-de-fragata) and returned to the naval artillery school, based on the frigate D. Fernando II e Glória . From December 1937 to April 1938, Inso acted simultaneously as the ship's commandant and director of the school until he did research on Portuguese naval history. In 1939, Inso became responsible for history in the Admiral's staff by a ministerial decree. In that year he finished his work A Marinha Portuguesa na Grande Guerra ( The Portuguese Navy in the Great War ), which he had already published in individual chapters since 1937.

In 1943, Inso published Arte de Navegar, a work in which he wrote about navigation and human psychology in relation to shipping. In 1947 an article with the title Os Genários followed in the Diário de Notícias newspaper . Here Inso devoted himself more to a sociological study of men who had "circumnavigated" the age of 50.

In 1947 Inso became head of the naval library and the then affiliated naval museum , while at the same time he was a member of the naval staff. Between 1950 and 1957 he was also a member of the commission for the drafting of the naval annals every year. In 1953 Inso wrote the article A Estética Histórica-Maritíma da Cidade de Lisboa (The Historical-Maritime Aesthetics of the City of Lisbon) for the magazine Olissipo and in 1964 Nossa Senhora de Penha de França na Evocação Maritíma ((The Church) Our Lady of Penha de Franca in maritime memory).

The naval museum was greatly expanded under Inso. He integrated the collection of ship models that the private citizen Henrique Monfroy de Seixas had built up and bequeathed to the museum after his death at the end of 1947. At the beginning of the 1950s, the museum was part of the naval school on Rua do Arsenal and the local naval library. Large parts were also housed in the Sala do Risco and in the Palácio das Laranjeiras . In 1956, Inso began planning to bring the collection under one roof, although he had already been retired in 1950. In 1959, Inso received the title of museum director. Finally, the Museu de Marinha was officially opened in its current premises in August 1962.

As museum director, Inso was also involved in founding the Calouste Gulbenkian planetarium in 1965. To this end, he also wrote the article Um planetário desconhecido (An unknown planetarium) in the club annals . In 1967 the article O Museu de Marinha (The Naval Museum) appeared there with a collection of various publications and explanatory details as simple narratives about the Navy. It was Inso's last work. He died that same year.

bibliography

  • Ecos de Macau. Guerra dos Piratas. A Batalha de Lantau. Macau 1912.
  • Em Socorro de Timor. Lisbon 1913.
  • Macau, a Jóia do Oriente, Lisbon 1913.
  • Macau: a corn antiga colónia europeia no extremo-oriente. Macau 1929.
  • O caminho do Oriente. Lisbon 1932.
  • Visões da China. Lisbon 1933.
  • China. Lisbon 1936.
  • Mr. Wu. by Louise Jordan, translation by Jaime do Inso, Lisbon 1936.
  • A Marinha portuguesa na Grande Guerra. 1937.
  • "Timor - 1912". New edition Lisbon 1939.
  • O Museu de Marinha, conferência promovida pela Comissâo de Estudos Militares da Sociedade de Geograia de Lisboa, realizada na mesma Sociedade no dia 29 le abril de 1949. Lisbon 1950.
  • O caminho do Oriente. New edition by the Instituto Cultural de Macau 1996.
  • Cenas da vida de Macau. New edition by the Instituto Cultural de Macau 1997.
  • A última revolta em Timor 1912. New edition Lisbon 2004, OCLC 68189039 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WorldCat: A Marinha portuguesa na Grande Guerra
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Revista da Armada: Jaime do Inso ( Memento from August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese), accessed on June 12, 2012.
  3. ↑ Portuguese Gunboat Macau ( Memento from June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b Macau antigo: Jaime do Inso (1880–1967)
  5. ↑ Existir em Macau: Jaime do Inso
personal data
SURNAME So, Jaime do
ALTERNATIVE NAMES So, Jaime Correira do
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese naval officer, author and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Nossa Senhora da Graça, Nisa County, Portalegre District
DATE OF DEATH 1967