Afrânio Peixoto
Afrânio Peixoto (born December 17, 1876 in Lençóis , † January 12, 1947 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian doctor , politician , literary critic and writer .
Peixoto received his doctorate in medicine in Salvador da Bahia in 1897 with a thesis on " Epilepsy and crime ". From 1907 he taught forensic medicine at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro . In 1910 he was elected to cadeira 7 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras and was a co-founder of the Academia Brasileira de Filologia , whose cadeira 2 he occupied. From 1924 to 1930 he was a member of the State of Bahia in the Brazilian parliament; then he worked as a lecturer at the Instituto Superior de Educação in Rio de Janeiro. In 1935 he became rector of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro .
He was known for his rivalry with Carlos Chagas and took the view against him that there are no tropical (climatic) diseases per se; rather, social circumstances are to blame for the spread of diseases.
Web links
- Literature by and about Afrânio Peixoto in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Literature by and about Afrânio Peixoto in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Afrânio Peixoto in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature by and about Afrânio Peixoto in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ^ Marília Coutinho: O Nobel perdido. In: Folha de S. Paulo . Issue 5, February 7, 1999, p. 11.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peixoto, Afrânio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian doctor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lençóis |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1947 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro |