Capistrano de Abreu

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Capistrano de Abreu

João Capistrano de Abreu (born October 23, 1853 in Maranguape , † August 13, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian historian .

Capistrano de Abreu is considered one of the most important historians in Brazil and an opponent of the Eurocentric Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen . He devoted himself to Brazilian colonial history and developed a national literary theory based on the concepts of climate, attachment to the earth and race.

Life

After his employment at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro (1875–83), de Abreu became professor of history at the Colégio Pedro II in 1883 . Influenced by the sociologists Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer and the historical work of Henry Buckle and Hippolyte Taine , de Abreu wrote the Capítulos de História Colonial ("Chapter on Colonial History ") in 1907 as a comprehensive study of the Brazilian colonization from 1500 to 1800. His focus on the culture of indigenous groups was an early and important ethnological examination of the European settlement of the Brazilian hinterland.

De Abreu wrote other works on linguistics , translated German and French texts on Brazilian history, and edited the writings of the important historian Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen .

Capistrano de Abreu is patron of the cadeira 15 of the Academia Cearense de Letras and the cadeira 23 of the Academia Brasileira de Literatura de Cordel . He was elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras , but turned it down.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Rebeca Gontijo: "Capistrano de Abreu" ( Memento of September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), short biography on the website of the Brazilian National Library . Retrieved April 2, 2017 (Portuguese).
  2. a b Capistrano de Abreu. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved April 10, 2018 .