António Reis (historian)

António Fernando Marques Ribeiro Reis (born May 9, 1948 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese historian, politician and professor at the University of Lisbon .

He studied philosophy with a degree from the Swiss University of Friborg and later did his doctorate in Lisbon in history on Raul Proença "Biografia de um Intelectual Político Republicano" (2003). Out of the student movement, he joined the militant democratic opposition to the Salazar regime , was persecuted and, in 1973, helped found the Portuguese Socialist Party . He was editor of Seara Nova magazine from 1969 to 1974 and also became co-director of the critical magazine Finisterra. He was directly involved in the revolution of April 25, 1974 and was a member of the Constituent Assembly and the Portuguese Parliament for several legislative terms . In 1978 he was briefly Secretary of State for Culture under Mário Soares . Between 1980 and 1982 he was a member of the Press Council (Conselho de Imprensa). In 1985 he became vice director in the cultural department of the radio station RTP . He received an assistant professorship in contemporary history and headed the Institute (IHC) at the University of Lisbon from 1993 to 1995. In 2009 he finished his apprenticeship. From 2008 he worked on building the House of European History .

From 2005 to 2011, Reis was Grand Master in the Masonic Order Grande Oriente Lusitano. In 2004 he received the Portuguese Order of Freedom as Grand Officer (Ordem da Liberdade) on the anniversary of the revolution.

Fonts

• Edited by: Dicionário de historia de Portugal: o 25 de april, 8 vols., Porto 2016–17
• Ed .: Portugal contemporâneo (1820–1992), 6 vols., Lisbon 1990–1993
• O Marxismo ea Revolução Portuguesa , Lisboa 1979

Web links

• António Reis - biografia em Tornado (jornal online)
• http://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/antonio-reis/ Homepage at the ihc