Antonio Francisco de Paula Souza

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Antonio Francisco de Paula Souza

Antônio Francisco de Paula Souza (born December 6, 1843 in Itu , São Paulo , † April 13, 1917 in São Paulo .) Was a Brazilian engineer and politician .

Life

Antônio Francisco de Paula Souza came from an old Brazilian family. His father, Antonio Francisco de Paula Souza (1819–1866), was Brazilian Minister for Agriculture (1864–1866) and MP. His paternal grandfather was the Brazilian politician and finance minister Francisco de Paula Souza e Melo (1791-1854). His maternal grandfather was Antonio Paes de Barros (1791–1876), who introduced coffee growing in the state of São Paulo.

After de Paula Souza had already visited 1858-1860 in Dresden high school, he studied from 1861 in Switzerland at the fledgling Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich Engineering and from 1864 in Baden at the Polytechnic of Karlsruhe . In Zurich he joined the Corps Rhenania , in Karlsruhe the Corps Franconia . The Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention (WSC) was founded during his studies and active time in Zurich , so that he is one of the people who founded the WSC. His name is immortalized on the table of the five-league corner in the castle tavern of the Wachenburg . His younger brother Francisco also studied in Zurich and Karlsruhe and, like him, joined the Corps Rhenania and Franconia. In 1871 he married Ada Virginie Herwegh, daughter of the poet Georg Herwegh and sister of Horace Herwegh , who like de Paula Souza was a member of the Corps Rhenania. The Herwegh family lived in Zurich in exile from 1851 to 1866. With the Herwegh family he also got in contact with the movement for the unification of Italy led by Giuseppe Garibaldi .

After completing his studies and finally returning to Brazil, he devoted himself to developing the Brazilian railway system from 1871. In 1873 he took part in the Itú Congregation, the first republican convention in Brazil. In 1892 he was elected to the Câmara do Congresso Legislativo of the State of São Paulo, of which he was president from March 31, 1892 to March 8, 1893. Under the Brazilian President Floriano Peixoto , he was Brazilian Foreign Minister from December 11, 1892 to April 22, 1893 and Brazilian Minister of Transport from April 22 to September 8, 1893.

De Paula Souza was a pioneer for a public education system in Brazil. On his initiative, the São Paulo Polytechnic School, which has been part of the University of São Paulo since 1934 , was founded in 1893 . De Paula Souza was appointed professor and first rector of the São Paulo Polytechnic, which he headed from November 24, 1894 until his death in April 1917. His main concern as a university lecturer was to establish a technical education system in Brazil that not only takes academic aspects into account, but also takes into account professional requirements. European and American professionals accepted his invitations to teach at the police station .

Honors

In honor of Antônio Francisco de Paula Souza, the Center for Technological Education of the State of São Paulo is named Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica Paula Souza . A street in Campinas was named after him.

literature

  • Cristina de Campos: Ferrovias e Saneamento in São Paulo. O Engheiro Antonio Francisco de Paula Souza ea construção da rede de infraestrutura territorial e urbana paulista, 1870–1893. Dissertation, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, University of São Paulo, 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 150 years of Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855-2005 , Braunschweig 2005, p. 304
  2. ↑ Bernd-A. Kahe: Corps Franconia Karlsruhe 1839 - 1989, a chronicle , p. 46, Karlsruhe 1989
  3. ↑ Bernd-A. Kahe: Corps Franconia Karlsruhe 1839 - 1989, a chronicle , p. 177, Karlsruhe 1989
  4. ↑ Bernd-A. Kahe: Corps Franconia Karlsruhe 1839 - 1989, a chronicle , p. 176, Karlsruhe 1989
  5. ^ List of the presidents of the Câmara do Congresso Legislativo of the State of São Paulo in the Portuguese Wikipedia
  6. ↑ List of Brazilian foreign ministers in the Portuguese Wikipedia
  7. ^ List of the Brazilian transport ministers in the Portuguese Wikipedia
  8. ↑ Profile and history of the Centro Paula Souza ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.centropaulasouza.sp.gov.br
  9. ↑ Avenida Engenheiro Antônio Francisco de Paula Souza in the Portuguese Wikipedia

See also

personal data
SURNAME Souza, Antonio Francisco de Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian engineer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Itu (Brazil)
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1917
Place of death São Paulo