Caio Prado Júnior

Caio Prado Júnior (born February 11, 1907 in São Paulo ; † November 23, 1990 ibid) was a Brazilian historian , geographer , writer and politician ( PC do B and PCB ).

Prado Júnior is considered to be one of the founders of Marxist historiography in Brazil. He was a professor at the Universidade de São Paulo and founded the Association of Brazilian Geographers (AGB) in 1934 with Pierre Deffontaines , Luís Flores de Morais Rego and Rubens Borba de Morais . He was editor of the evening paper A Plateia ; In 1943 he founded, together with Arthur Neves and Monteiro Lobato , the publishing house Editora Brasiliense , in which he published the magazine Revista Brasiliense from 1956 to 1964 . In 1945 Prado Júnior was elected to the Brazilian parliament for the Partido Comunista Brasileiro . In the 1950s he dealt theoretically with dialectics and published A Dialética do Conhecimento (1952) and Notas Introdutórias à Lógica Dialética (1959). He was politically persecuted during the military dictatorship . In 1966 he was awarded the Prêmio Juca Pato for his critical book A revolução brasileira .

Web links

Literature by and about Caio Prado Júnior in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Literature by and about Caio Prado Júnior in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Literature by and about Caio Prado Júnior in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

↑ Raimundo Santos: "Caio Prado Jr., nosso clássico publicista." ( Memento of the original from April 17, 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. In: Espaço Acadêmico , No. 70, March 2007, ISSN 1519-6186 @1@ 2
↑ Short biography on Brasilescola
↑ Short biography on Infoescola

personal data
SURNAME	Prado Júnior, Caio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian historian, geographer, writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	São Paulo
DATE OF DEATH	November 23, 1990
Place of death	São Paulo

[1] Raimundo Santos: "Caio Prado Jr., nosso clássico publicista." ( Memento of the original from April 17, 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. In: Espaço Acadêmico , No. 70, March 2007, ISSN 1519-6186 @1@ 2

[2] Short biography on Brasilescola

[3] Short biography on Infoescola