Augusto Carlos Teixeira de Aragão

Augusto Carlos Teixeira de Aragão

Augusto Carlos Teixeira de Aragão (born June 15, 1823 in Lisbon , † April 29, 1903 ibid) was a Portuguese military doctor , numismatist , antiquarian and historian . As an officer in the Portuguese army, he achieved the rank of general . He is considered one of the "fathers of numismatics" in Portugal.

biography

Aragão was the son of José Maria Teixeira Aragão and his wife Mariana Hermogenes da Silva. He studied medicine and was Cirurgião-mór-em-chefe in the Portuguese Army.

He started as a surgeon in the parish of Melides in the county of Santiago do Cacém . He took care of the sick and helped the needy and those affected by the dysentery epidemic that occurred there in 1849 .

Early on he dedicated himself to collecting coins. His extraordinary intellectual abilities, combined with his friendship with Louis I of Portugal , allowed him to work intensively in this field of science.

In the 1860s he was responsible for the work on the excavation site of the rediscovered Roman city of Balsa near Tavira .

Numerous offices

In 1867, as Chancellor of the Office of the National Palace in Ajuda , he was responsible for the organization, cataloging and exhibition of the "Museu de Antiguidades da Ajuda", where you can find pieces of great value from the treasury of the Portuguese royal family, the abandoned monasteries and from Gathered individuals. He also arranged for new pieces to be acquired. In performing these tasks, he was also entrusted with the task of exhibiting objects from the Portuguese royal collection at the Paris World Exhibition in 1867 , and the “Commission de l'histoire du travail”. During the duration of the exhibition, he had the opportunity to come into contact with the world's most renowned figures in the field of numismatics.

In 1870 he published the work Descrição Histórica das Moedas Romanas Existentes no Gabinete Numismático de sua Majestade El-Rei O Senhor D. Luiz . A year later he became a corresponding member of the Brazilian "Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro", as his work had been positively assessed by the "Comissão de Archeologia e Ethnographia".

In 1874 he joined the "Sociedade Histórica da Independência de Portugal" and took over the post of Vice Treasurer of the "Comissão Central 1º de Dezembro 1640".

In 1875 he published the first of three volumes of the monumental work Descrição Geral e Histórica das Moedas Cunhadas em Nome dos Reis, Regentes e Governadores de Portugal . Teixeira de Aragão had planned a fourth volume of this work, which should also include the coins of Brazil and Portuguese West Africa , the volume was no longer realized.

In the same year he was appointed by the government to implement a reform in the commission of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in order to link museums with monument protection and archeology . During this time he reproduced the exact design of the Medalha de Olhão , which had been given by the inhabitants of the city of Olhão to the then Prince Regent D. João and later King Dom João VI de Portugal .

He was elected to the History and Archeology Section of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Lisbon (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa) on December 28, 1876 .

In 1877 he took part in the archaeological conference of Citânia de Briteiros in Guimarães .

In 1880 he became a member of the commission of the "Real Associação dos Architectos Civis e Archeologos Portuguezes" (RAACAP); their main task was the question of the relevance of the objects in the exhibitions, as well as the management of historical monuments.

In 1881 he was a member of the organizing committee for the exhibition of Spanish and Portuguese decorative arts at the South Kensington Museum in London .

In 1885 he became director of the Central Military Hospital of Tavira .

He was a member of the Geographical Society of Lisbon, the Société Française de Numismatique and the committee of the Antiquities Collection of the Real Academia de la Historia de Madrid. In Brazil he was admitted as a consultant to the Institute of History and Geography of São Paulo .

Publications

• As minhas ferias . Lisbon, Typographia da Academia das Bellas Artes, 1843. 64p.
• Vidigueira: Fragmentos históricos (PDF; 3.3 MB) . Beja: O Bejense , 1861.
• Vidigueira: Convento do Carmo (PDF; 1.9 MB) . Beja: O Bejense , 1861.
• Description des Monnaies, Médailles et Autres Objects D'Art Concernant L'Histoire Portugaise . Paris: Imprimerie Administrative de Paul Dupont, 1867. 171p.
• Notes on quelques numismates portugais des XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles: lettre a M. le vicomte de Ponton d'Amécourt . Paris: Pillet, 1867.
• Relatório sobre o Cemitério Romano Descoberto próximo da cidade de Tavira em Maio de 1868 . Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1868. 20p.
• Catálogo descriptivo das moedas e medalhas portuguezas que formam parte da colecção do Visconde de Sanches de Baena . Lisbon, Typographia de Castro Irmão, 1869.
• Descripção Histórica the Moedas Romana existent no Gabinete de sua Numismático Magestade EL Rei O Senhor Dom Luiz I . Lisbon, Typographya Universal, 1870. 640p.
• D. Vasco da Gama ea Villa da Vidigueira D. Vasco da Gama ea Villa da Vidigueira . Lisbon, Typographya Universal, 1871.
• Typos politicos: Mestre Manoel Camões . Lisbon, Almanac Arsejas - Liv. Arsejas, 1872.
• Descrição geral e histórica das moedas cunhadas em nome dos reis, regentes e governadores de Portugal (Tomo I) . Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1875. 538p.
• Descrição geral e histórica das moedas cunhadas em nome dos reis, regentes e governadores de Portugal (Tomo II) .Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1877. 578p.
• Descrição geral e histórica das moedas cunhadas em nome dos reis, regentes e governadores de Portugal (Tomo III) . Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1880. 714p.
• Vasco da Gama ea Vidigueira: Estudo historico . Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1887. 164p.
• Anneis: Estudo . Lisbon, Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1887. 25 p.
• Breve noticia sobre o descobrimento da América . Lisbon, Typographya da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1892. 80p.
• Catálogo dos objectos de arte e industria dos indígenas da América que, pelas festas commemorativas do 4 ° centenário da sua descoberta, a Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa envia à Exposição de Madrid . Lisbon, Typographya da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1892. 44p.
• Diabruras, santidades e prophecias . Lisbon, Typographya da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1894. 151p.
• Antiguidades romanas de Balsa . Lisbon, O Archeologo Português, 1896. N.º2. Pp. 55-57.
• Memoria historica sobre os Palacios da residencia dos V. Reys da India . (Manuscript).

Awards and honors

• 1868 Cavaleiro da Ordem Militar da Torre e Espada
• Cavaleiro da Ordem de Cristo
• 1870 Comendador da Ordem Militar de Avis
• 1874 Cavaleiro da Ordem Militar de Avis

• Medalha Teixeira de Aragão (Teixeira de Aragão Medaille) - minted in 1963 by the Portuguese Society for Numismatics in bronze (diameter 70 mm, weight 163 g).
• Praça Doutor Teixeira de Aragão ("Dr. Teixeira de Aragão" square), in the Benfica municipality in the Lisbon district.
• Letters

literature

• Luis Silveira Botelho: Médicos na toponímia de Lisboa . Lisbon, Câmara Municipal. Comissão Municipal de Toponímia, 1992. pp. 183-184 with ill.
• Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira de Cultura . Verbo.
• Portugália. Materiaes para o estudo do povo portuguez. Vol. 1, No. 4. Porto, Livraria Chardron, de Lello & Irmão, 1899. S. 863 full text (PDF; 491 kB)
• António LTC Pestana de Vasconcelos: Costados Alentejanos .
• José Leite de Vasconcelos: O Archeologo Português . Lisbon.
• Hugo Xavier: O "Museu de Antiguidades" da Ajuda: Numismática e Ourivesaria das Coleções Reais ao tempo de D. Luís (PDF; 1.1 MB). Instituto de História da Arte FCSH / UNL.

Web links

• Literature by and about Augusto Carlos Teixeira de Aragão in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Evora District File
• Geneall.net
• Newspaper articles

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Portuguese Army
2. ^ Academy of Sciences of Lisbon
3. ^ Biblioteca Nacional
4. ↑ Catálogo descriptivo das moedas e medalhas portuguezas que formam parte da colecção do Visconde de Sanches de Baena ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2010 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.  
5. ↑ Typos politicos: Mestre Manoel Camões ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2010 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.  
6. ↑ Knight of the Tower and Sword Order ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Commander of the Knightly Order of St. Benedict von Avis ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. 
8. ↑ Knight of the Order of Knights of St. Benedict von Avis ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ Teixeira de Aragão medal
10. ↑ Letters to Teixeira de Aragão ( Memento of the original dated May 31, 2010 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.