Edgar Roquette-Pinto

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Edgar Roquette-Pinto (born September 25, 1884 in Rio de Janeiro , † October 18, 1954 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian writer , ethnologist , anthropologist and doctor . He was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras and is considered the father of radio in Brazil.

Life

Roquette-Pinto studied medicine at the Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro until 1905 . He was assistant in anthropology at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro (1906).

In 1912 Edgar Roquette-Pinto took part in an expedition to Rondônia and lived for some time with the Nambikwara , who until then had no contact with "civilization". He collected extensive ethnographic material and published Rondonia (1916), a classic of Brazilian anthropological literature.

In 1926 he became director of the National Museum , where he began to build up the largest collection of documentaries in Brazil.

First radio in Brazil

In 1922, a radio antenna was installed on the Corcovado at the exhibition on the occasion of the centenary of Brazil's independence from the Americans . Roquette Pinto convinced the Brazilian Academy of Sciences to buy the equipment. In 1922, the first radio station in Brazil was founded, the Rádio Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro . Roquette-Pinto became its first director. In 1925 Albert Einstein visited the radio station.

Works

Edgar Roquette – Pinto translated works by Goethe into Portuguese , among other things . He was one of the co-founders of the First Goethe Society in Brazil. In 1932 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science for his services to Goethe .

In German

  • Rondonia: A journey to the heart of South America. Stuttgart / Vienna, 1954
  • Preface to Ernst Feders Goethe present . Rio de Janeiro, 1950

In Portuguese

  • O exercício da medicina entre os indígenas da America (1906)
  • Excursão à região das Lagoas do Rio Grande do Sul (1912)
  • Guia de anthropologia (1915)
  • Rondônia (1916) (2nd edition 1919, archive.org )
  • Elementos de mineralogia (1918)
  • Conceito atual da vida (1920)
  • Seixos rolados Estudos brasileiros (1927)
  • Glória sem rumor (1928)
  • Ensaios de antropologia brasiliana (1933)
  • Samambaia, contos (1934)
  • Ensaios brasilianos (1941)

literature

  • Ernst Feder : Memories of Roquette Pinto. Löw, Ijui / Rio Grande de Sul 1956.

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personal data
SURNAME Roquette-Pinto, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roquette-Pinto, Edgard; Roquette Pinto, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer, ethnologist, anthropologist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1954
Place of death Rio de Janeiro