Eduardo Lourenço

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Eduardo Lourenço (2015)

Eduardo Lourenço de Faria (born May 23, 1923 in São Pedro de Rio Seco , Guarda District , Portugal ; † December 1, 2020 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese literary scholar , essayist and philosopher . He was the most important contemporary thinker in Portugal.

Life

Lourenço studied philosophy and history at the University of Coimbra . There he also taught as a professor from 1946 to 1952. From 1953 to 1954 he taught Portuguese literature at the University of Hamburg and from 1954 to 1955 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He was then from 1955 to 1958 as a professor at the University of Montpellier .

After a brief teaching position from 1958 to 1959 at the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador da Bahia ( Brazil ), he went to France in 1960 to teach at the University of Grenoble until 1965 . He then followed a call to the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis , where he stayed until his retirement . He was then given the post of cultural attaché in Rome . From 1988 he was also editor of the Portuguese magazine "Finisterra" .

Lourenço was one of the most outstanding experts on the works of the Portuguese poet and writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). His work posed the question of the culture and identity of Portugal and its history.

Eduardo Lourenço lived in Vence on the Côte d'Azur from 1965 and only returned to Portugal in the last years of his life. He died in Lisbon at the age of 97. Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prime Minister António Costa spoke about his death . A one-day state mourning was declared.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Portugal-Europe: Myth and Melancholy , TFM-Verlag, 1997
  • The Myth of the Saudade , Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Lisbon Academy of Sciences puts its birthday on May 29th.
  2. ↑ Portugal's star philosopher Lourenço is dead , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on December 1, 2020.
  3. ^ Ana Dias Cordeiro : Eduardo Lourenço é o Prémio Pessoa 2011 . PÚBLICO Comunicação Social SA , December 16, 2011, accessed June 17, 2019 (Portuguese).

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personal data
SURNAME Lourenço, Eduardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lourenço de Faria, Eduardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese literary scholar, essayist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH São Pedro de Rio , Guarda District
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 2020
Place of death Lisbon