Ivan Monteiro de Barros Lins
Ivan Monteiro de Barros Lins (born April 16, 1904 in Belo Horizonte , † June 16, 1975 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian essayist and philosopher .
Lins attended the Colégio Anglo-Americano and the Colégio Arnaldo in Belo Horizonte. In 1917 he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he completed his medical degree in 1930 when he was already a positivist . In 1932 he became secretary of the Estação Experimental de Combustíveis e Minérios, and in 1937 professor of the history of philosophy at the law faculty of the Universidade do Brasil . During the Vargas era he was appointed Minister of the Federal Audit Office, of which he was President. In 1957 he became a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras , whose cadeira 1 he occupied.
Lins is considered one of the most prominent advocates of positivism in Brazil.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ivan Monteiro de Barros Lins in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Full text of Lins' History of Positivism in Brazil (Portuguese) , Brasiliana Eletrônica
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| SURNAME | Lins, Ivan Monteiro de Barros |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barros Lins, Ivan Monteiro de; Barros-Lins, Ivan Monteiro de; Monteiro de Barros Lins, Ivan; Monteiro de Barros-Lins, Ivan; Lins, Ivan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian essayist and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belo Horizonte |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1975 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro |