Brazilian National Library
| Brazilian National Library | |
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 Recording from 2010
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| founding | 1810 |
| Duration | 10 million media units |
| Library type | National Library |
| place | Rio de Janeiro |
| operator | state |
| Website | www.bn.br/portal |
The Brazilian National Library ( Portuguese Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil , officially Fundação Biblioteca Nacional ) in Rio de Janeiro is the largest library in Latin America with 9 million media . In March 2013, the political scientist Renato Lessa , succeeding Galeno Amorim, was appointed President of the Brazilian National Library Foundation by the Minister of Culture Marta Suplicy .
One of the library's treasures is the Teresa Cristina Maria Collection on Brazilian history with over 21,000 photographs, which were included in the World Document Heritage in 2003 .
history
The library of the Portuguese royal family already had over 70,000 books when it suffered some destruction in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake . The remaining and increased stocks went with the escape of the court from the Napoleonic invasions in 1808 to the new capital Rio de Janeiro , in the Portuguese colony of Brazil. In 1810 the Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil was opened.
When the royal family returned to Portugal in April 1821, they took only a small part of the book collection with them, which since 1880 has been a separate collection as the Biblioteca da Ajuda , today part of the Portuguese National Library . Most of it remained in Rio de Janeiro, which became the capital of the Brazilian Empire when it gained independence in 1822 .
As the recipient of the Brazilian deposit copy and by adding other holdings, the library has grown steadily since then and is now the largest library in Latin America.
Publications
- Anais da Biblioteca Nacional. 1.1876 / 77 ff. Rio de Janeiro. ISSN 0100-1922 . ( Online editions ).
further reading
- German
- Franz Obermeier: The Brazilian library system: overview of the history of the Brazilian library system. In: Bibliotheksdienst 39 (2005) H. 11, pp. 1411–1437. (PDF; 338 kB).
- Christoph Müller: On the state of libraries in Rio de Janeiro. In: Bibliotheksdienst 41 (2007) H. 4, pp. 421–426.
See also
Web links
- Brazilian National Library website
- Literature from and about Biblioteca Nacional Rio de Janeiro in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Histórico , Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, accessed on May 3, 2014.
- ↑ Renato Lessa assume comando da Biblioteca Nacional . In: O Estado de S. Paulo, March 28, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013 (Brazilian Portuguese).
Coordinates: 22 ° 54 ′ 35 ″ S , 43 ° 10 ′ 31.5 ″ W.