Alceu Amoroso Lima

Alceu Amoroso Lima (born December 11, 1893 in Rio de Janeiro , † August 14, 1983 in Petrópolis ) was a Brazilian writer , literary critic and politician . He wrote under the pseudonym Tristão de Ataíde .

Life

Alceu Amoroso Lima studied law in Rio de Janeiro. After graduating in 1913, he traveled to France. After returning to Brazil, he worked as a literary critic and took his pseudonym. By Jackson de Figueiredo and P. Leonel Franca S.J. influenced, he converted to the Catholic Church in 1928 and, after de Figueiredo's death, headed the Centro Dom Vital , a meeting place for the country's Catholic intellectuals. In 1932 he founded the Catholic Electoral League together with Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira and Heitor da Silva Costa with the support of Cardinal Archbishop Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra . Later, influenced by Jacques Maritain , he changed his political course. On August 29, 1935, he was elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras , a literary academy modeled on the Académie française . From 1935 to 1945 he was President of the Brazilian Catholic Action . From 1941 to 1963 he was a lecturer at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (German Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro) for Brazilian literature. During the military government he campaigned for freedom of expression and freedom of the press.

personal data
SURNAME	Lima, Alceu Amoroso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ataíde, Tristão de (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian writer, literary critic and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 11, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH	August 14, 1983
Place of death	Petrópolis