Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia

Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia (born September 3, 1897 in Estreito de Câmara de Lobos , Portugal , † January 29, 1943 in Quelimane , Portuguese East Africa ) was a Portuguese military and colonial administrator in the 20th century.

Life

The Escola do Reino de Venilale (2015), one of the schools built by Pinto Correia in East Timor

Pinto Correiro comes from Estreito de Câmara de Lobos on the island of Madeira and was the son of Guilherme Pinto Correia and Ignacia Augusta Alves Correia .

In 1918 Pinto Correia was ensign ( alferes ).

In the rank of lieutenant of the infantry, Pinto Correira was from 1928 to 1934 administrator of the military commands Baucau and Dili in what was then the colony of Portuguese Timor (now East Timor ). During this time he had several buildings erected that are now part of the local attractions, such as the market building of the city of Baucau and the seven later so-called Pinto Correia schools , which were built according to his construction plan.

In the province of Niassa (Portuguese East Africa, today Mozambique ) Pinto Corriea was between 1936 and 1940 administrative inspector for native affairs with the rank of captain ( capitão ). In 1942 he was governor of the province of Zambezia , where he also died in Quelimane on January 29, 1943.

Awards

• Cavaleiro des Ordem do Império Colonial , 1934.

Works

• Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia: Notas de Etnografia Timorense (Região de Baucau) , BGC (Boletim Geral das Colónias), ano X, Lisboa, Agência Geral das Colónias, n. ° 106, 1934, pp. 35-52.

Web links

• Arquivo Histórico Militar: Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia, Alferes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arquivo Histórico Militar: Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia, Alferes: PT AHM-DIV-1-35A-1-10-3185_m0001.jpg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 22, 2015.  
2. ↑ Arquivo Histórico Militar: Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia, Alferes  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 22, 2015.  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Arquivo Histórico da Presidência da Républica: Ordem do Império Colonial = Ordem do Império: Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia , accessed on August 22, 2015.
4. ↑ Heritage of Portuguese Influence Portal: The Pinto Correia Schools , August 9, 2012 , accessed August 22, 2015.
5. ↑ 1936 to 1937 confirmed in: Joana Pereira Leite e Nicole Khouri: História Social e Económica dos Ismailis de Moçambique - século XX ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , P. 6, accessed on August 22, 2015. 
6. ↑ 1938 to 1940 confirmed in: Rosemary Galli: Peoples' Spaces and State Spaces: Land and Governance in Mozambique. P. 274, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003.
7. ^ Przemyslaw Antoni Wójcik: Schooling at the edge of the world: An ethnographic study of educational ambivalence within coastal habitus in northern Mozambique , p. 87, University of East Anglia, 2014 , accessed on August 22, 2015.
8. ↑ Conselho Municipal da Cidade de Quelimane: História ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 22, 2015.