Fernando Bastos de Ávila

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Fernando Bastos de Ávila SJ (born March 17, 1918 in Copacabana , Rio de Janeiro , † November 6, 2010 in Belo Horizonte ) was a Brazilian religious and writer . From 1997 until his death he was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (seat 15).

Life

The son of José Bastos de Avila (* 1888), university professor for physical anthropology in Rio de Janeiro, and Cinira Muniz Freire Bastos de Avila joined the Jesuit order in 1935 and received Jesuit training in the humanities, rhetoric and scholastic philosophy as well as the Ratio Studiorum . From 1943 to 1945 he studied Greek and Latin classics. After studying philosophy and Catholic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome , he was ordained a priest there in 1948 . From 1950 to 1954 he completed a doctorate in political and social sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven and received his doctorate with honors with a thesis on the problems of migration .

In 1954 he returned to Brazil and was professor at the Sociological Faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro PUC-Rio) from 1954 to 2010 . He taught sociology, introduction to social sciences, ethics and Christian social doctrine . In 1955 he founded the faculty for sociology, politics and economics, of which he was dean until 1967. In 1964 he was also rector of the university. In 1995 he retired.

In 1967 he founded the Instituto Brasileiro de Desenvolvimento (IBRADES) in Rio, the Brazilian Institute for Development as a counterpart to the Instituto Latino-Americano de Desenvolvimento (ILADES) in Santiago de Chile. He was also an advisor to the Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB) and represented in numerous commissions in church, business and politics.

De Ávila was instrumental in introducing the social sciences and doctrine of the Church in Brazil. He was the founder and editor of the journal Síntese Política, Econômica e Social (SPES) , a journal for the synthesis in politics, economics and social issues. He has published fifteen books as well as numerous essays and articles on subjects such as theoretical sociology, Brazilian problems, history and the social doctrine of the Church.

De Avila died on 6 November 2010 at the age of 92 years to cancer .

Fonts

  • Economic Impacts of Immigration: The Brazilian Immigration Problem. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague 1954.
  • L'Immigration au Bresil. Contribution to a theory generale de l'immigration. AGIR, 1956.
  • Immigration to Latin America. A study made with the co-operation of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. Pan American Union, 1964.
  • Pequena enciclopédia de moral e civismo. Rio de Janeiro 1967.
  • Introdução a Sociologia. AGIR, 1981.
  • A Igreja eo estado na Constituinte. Centro Joao XXIII, IBRADES, 1986, ISBN 85-7004-073-3 .
  • Pequena enciclopédia de doutrina social da Igreja. Edições Loyola, São Paulo 1991, ISBN 85-15-00469-0 .
  • Solidarism. Novera, 1997, ISBN 978-8572005173
  • Folhas De Outono. Etica E Valores. Loyola, 2010, ISBN 978-8515023110 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morre em BH o Académico since ABL padre Ávila. Website: Terra Networks Brasil, November 6, 2010 (Portuguese), accessed November 2, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Ávila, Fernando Bastos de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ávila, Fernando Bastos de SJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian religious chaplain, writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Copacabana , Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2010
Place of death Belo Horizonte