César Sauvan Jaurú

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César Sauvan Baron Jaurú , actually César Sauvan Vianna de Lima Baron von Jaurú , (* 1824 in São Paulo , Brazil ; † October 14, 1897 in Dresden ) was a diplomat and minister of the Brazilian Empire. In 1873 he was ennobled by Emperor Pedro II , with the addition of Barão de Jaurú .

Life

César Sauvan Vianna de Lima came from an originally Portuguese family. Born in São Paulo in 1824, he studied in Europe and entered the diplomatic service of the Brazilian Empire in 1850. Baron Jaurú served as ambassador in Vienna and Berlin, in 1853 as legation secretary in Buenos Aires, from 1864 as extraordinary and plenipotentiary minister and plenipotentiary envoy in Asunción ( Paraguay ), where he, after intensive attempts at mediation and the ultimatum of the Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López of 30. August accepted Paraguay's declaration of war on Brazil; the following Triple Alliance War would become the bloodiest conflict in Latin American history. From 1867 he was finally ambassador to Berlin.

Baron Jaurú was married and the father of several children, including a daughter Amélia (born May 22, 1850), married to Baron Louis (Aloys) von Seiller in Vienna , where descendants of the family still live.

The numerous orders and awards that Baron César de Jaurú received included: Grande Dignitário (Grand Officer, the second highest level) of the Brazilian Order of the Rose , Grand Cross of the Real Ordem de Cristo de Portugal , Ordem de Alberto o Valoroso, Order Ernestina of Saxony , Lion of Baden , White Falcon of Saxony-Weimar, Grand Officer of the Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus of Italy, Commander of the Order of Württemberg and Imperial Order of Merit of Turkey.

In 1889, after the republican coup d'état by the Brazilian military, Baron Jaurú went into exile in Europe with the deposed Emperor Dom Pedro II. He died at the age of 73 on October 14, 1897 in Dresden.

literature

  • Art. Jauru, Barão e família Jauru . In: Carlos Eduardo Barata, Antônio Henrique da Cunha Bueno (ed.): Dicionário das Famílias Brasileiras . IberoAmérica, São Paulo 1999.

Web links

Wikisource: Certification and reception of foreign envoys at the North German Confederation. May 16, 1868  - sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Jaurú, César Sauvan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaurú, Cesar; Vianna de Lima, Cesar Baron of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1897
Place of death Dresden , Germany