Fidelino de Figueiredo

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Fidelino de Figueiredo

Fidelino de Figueiredo (born July 20, 1889 in Lisbon , † March 20, 1967 ibid) was a Portuguese author, politician, philosopher, historian, Romanist , Lusitanist , Hispanist and comparativeist , who temporarily taught in Spain and Brazil.

life and work

Fidelino de Sousa Figueiredo studied at the University of Lisbon (graduated in 1910) and devoted himself to a career as a politician (MP), civil servant in the Ministry of Education, Minister of Sidónio Pais , but above all to writing and humanities research (from 1912 to 1928 founding editor of the magazine Revista de História ). In 1927 he went to Madrid and taught at the university there until 1929 . He came into contact with Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo and Ramón Menéndez Pidal . Back in Lisbon, he lectured abroad, notably in the United States.

From 1939 to 1951 he taught Portuguese literature at the University of São Paulo , where, as in Rio de Janeiro, he created a group of students, including António Soares Amora , Cleonice Berardinelli , Segismundo Spina , Carlos de Assis Pereira and Massaud Moisés . He was the founding editor of Letras magazine in Brazil from 1938 to 1954 . In 1951 he returned to Lisbon for health reasons. Since 1955 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Figueiredo was a Portuguese representative of the Generación del 98 . His aesthetic conception was based on Benedetto Croce . In Brazil, streets (including São Paulo and Curitiba ), schools (São Paulo), and a chair (at the Universidade Federal da Bahia ) bear his name .

Works (selection)

Portuguese literary history

  • A critica litteraria em Portugal da renascença a actualidade, Lisbon 1910
    • Historia da critica litteraria em Portugal da renascença a actualidade, Lisbon 1916
  • Historia da litteratura romantica portuguesa (1825-1870), Lisbon 1913, 1923
  • História da Literatura Realista, Lisbon 1914, 1924
  • (Ed.) Antologia geral da literatura portuguesa, Lisbon 1917
  • História da Literatura Clássica, 3 vols., 1917-1924 (period 1502-1825)
    • Historia de la literatura portuguesa, Barcelona / Buenos Aires 1927 (Spanish, translation, 391 pages)
    • História Literária de Portugal (Sécs. XII-XX), 3rd edition, Coimbra 1944 (Spanish, 3 vols., Buenos Aires 1948)
  • Estudos de Literatura, 5 vols., Lisbon 1917–1951
  • Camoens, Madrid 1928 (Spanish, translation)
  • Literatura portuguesa. Desenvolvimento historico das origens à actualidade, Rio de Janeiro 1941, 3rd edition 1955
  • To Pobre Homem da Póvoa de Varzim. I centenário do nascimento de Eça de Queirós (1845–1945), Lisbon 1944

Other works

  • A critica litteraria como sciencia, Lisbon 1913, 1920
  • Portugal nas guerras europêas. Subsidios para a comprehensão dum problema de politica contemporanea, Lisbon 1914
  • Epicurismos, Lisbon 1924
  • Torre de Babel, Lisbon 1925
  • So a cinza do tédio. Romance duma consciencia, Lisbon 1925 (Italian Lanciano 1931)
  • Estudos de historia americana, São Paulo 1927
  • Del tedio, del amor y del odio, Madrid 1929 (Spanish, translation)
  • Notas para um idearium português, politica e litteratura, Lisbon 1929
  • Motivos de novo estylo, Lisbon 1930
  • Historia d'um "Vencido da Vida", Lisbon 1930
  • Crítica do exilio, Lisbon 1930
  • As Duas Espanhas, Coimbra 1932 (Spanish: Las dos Españas, most recently Pamplona 2014)
  • Pyrene. Ponto de vista para uma introdução à história comparada das literaturas portuguesas e espanholas, Lisbon 1935
  • Problemas de Ética do Pensamento. O Dever dos Intelectuais, Lisbon 1936
  • Últimas Aventuras, Rio de Janeiro 1941
  • Aristarchos, Rio de Janeiro 1941 (collective publication)
  • Antero, São Paulo 1942 (collective publication)
  • A Luta Pela Expressão (Prolegómenos para uma Filosofia da Literatura), Coimbra 1944 (Spanish, Buenos Aires 1947)
  • Cultura Intervalar, Coimbra 1944
  • Viagem através da Espanha literária (apontamentos de 1928), Rio de Janeiro 1951
  • To Coleccionador de Angústias, São Paulo 1951
  • Música e Pensamento, Lisbon 1954
  • Um Homem na Sua Humanidade, Lisbon 1956
  • O Medo da História, Lisbon 1957 (The fear of history)
  • Diálogo ao Espelho, Lisbon 1957 (Spiegeldialog)
  • Entre Dois Universos, Lisbon 1959
  • Símbolos e Mitos, Lisbon 1964
  • Ideias de Paz, Lisbon 1966
  • Paixão e Ressurreição do Homem, Lisbon 1967

literature

  • Ideário crítico de Fidelino de Figueiredo . Comemoração do jubileu de ouro do Professor Doutor Fidelino de Figueiredo, ed. by Carlos de Assis Pereira, São Paulo 1962
  • Julio García Morejón, Dos coleccionadores de angustias: Unamuno y Fidelino de Figueiredo , São Paulo 1967
  • A. Soares Amora, O essencial sobre Fidelino de Figueiredo , Lisbon 1989
  • Pedro Serra, To intelectual na fobolândia. Estudos sobre o ensaísmo de Fidelino de Figueiredo , Coimbra 2004
  • Mário Carneiro, O Pensamento Filosófico de Fidelino de Figueiredo , Lisbon 2004
  • José Cândido de Oliveira Martins, Fidelino de Figueiredo ea crítica da teoria literária positivista , Lisbon 2007
  • Cartas de Fidelino de Figueiredo e de Segismundo Spina , São Paulo 2009 (correspondence)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fidelino de Figueiredo obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file)
personal data
SURNAME Figueiredo, Fidelino de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Figueiredo, Fidelino de Sousa; Figueiredo, Fidelino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese author, politician, historian, Romanist , Lusitanist, Hispanist and comparativeist who taught in Spain and Brazil
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1967
Place of death Lisbon