João Manuel Pereira da Silva

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Portrait lithograph, published 1861.

João Manuel Pereira da Silva (born August 30, 1817 in Iguaçu, now Nova Iguaçu , † June 14, 1898 in Paris ) was a Brazilian author, historian and politician.

Life

João Manoel Pereira da Silva was born as the son of the Portuguese trader Miguel Joaquim Pereira da Silva and Joaquina Rosa de Jesus e Silva in what was then Vila de Iguassu in the Rio de Janeiro Capitol of the Kingdom of Brazil . He studied law in Paris from 1834 to 1838. After his return to Brazil, he devoted himself to literature and history in addition to his profession as a lawyer. In Niterói he joined a group of intellectuals. In 1839, together with Pedro de Alcântara Bellegarde and Josino do Nascimento Silva , he founded the magazine Revista Nacional e Estrangeira , which only existed until 1841. His magnum opus is the seven-volume work História da fundação do Império , which covers the period from 1808 to 1821, the time before the establishment of the Brazilian Empire .

He was a member of the Partido Conservador in the province of Rio de Janeiro on several occasions from 1843/44, 1848, 1850/1852, 1853/1856, 1867/1868, 1869/1870, 1872/1875, 1877, 1882/1884 and 1886/1887. From 1888 to 1889 he was a member of the Imperial Senate of Brazil and carried the title of Reichsrat ( Portuguese Conselho do Império ). After the proclamation of the republic, he withdrew from political life and published an autobiography in 1897 with the title Memórias do meu tempo .

Pereira da Silva was married to Maria Elisa de Sauvan Monteiro de Barros, her daughter Maria Elisa married the diplomat Marcos Antônio de Araújo e Abreu (2nd Baron Itabujá).

Act

Pereira da Silva was considered a prolific writer (polygraph). He published one of the first literary critical contributions by a Brazilian to romantic literature .

Works

Novels and short stories
  • Uma paixão de artista , 1838
  • Religião, amor e pátria , 1839
  • O aniversário de D. Manuel in 1828 , 1839
  • Aspásia , Rio de Janeiro, undated
  • Felinto Elísio e sua época , 1891
Crônicas
  • Jerônimo Corte-Real , 1840
  • Manuel de Moraes , 1866
Fonts
  • Parnaso brasileiro , 2 vol., 1843–1848
  • Plutarco brasileiro , 2 vol., 1847
  • Varões ilustres do Brasil durante os tempos coloniais , 1858
  • Obras literárias e políticas , 2 vol., 1862
  • História da fundação do Império , 7 vol., 1864–1868
  • Segundo período do Reinado de D. Pedro I no Brasil , 1871
  • História do Brasil de 1831 a 1840 , 1879
  • Nacionalidade da língua e literatura de Portugal e do Brasil , 1884
Autobiography
  • Memórias do meu tempo , 1897

None of his works have been translated into German.

Academia Brasileira de Letras

Pereira da Silva was a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras , seat (Cadeira) No. 34.

literature

  • João Manuel Pereira da Silva: Memórias do Meu Tempo (introdução de Célio Ricardo Tasinafo). Brasília: Senado Federal, 2003. New edition.
  • Octaciano Nogueira, João Sereno Firmo: Parlamentares do Império. Senado Federal, Brasília 1973.

Web links

  • Biobibliography: JM Pereira da Silva. In: www.academia.org.br. Academia Brasileira de Letras, accessed July 23, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Spelling before spelling reforms
  2. ↑ a b J. M. Pereira da Silva | Biography. In: www.academia.org.br. Academia Brasileira de Letras, accessed July 23, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  3. ^ Rodolpho Smith de Vasconcellos, Jaime Smith de Vasconcellos: Archivo nobiliarchico brasileiro . Imprimerie La Concorde, Lausanne 1918, p. 204-205 (Brazilian Portuguese, archive.org [accessed July 23, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Pereira da Silva, João Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pereira da Silva, João Manoel; Silva, João Manuel Pereira da; Pereira da Silva, J.-M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian author, historian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Vila de Iguaçu, now Nova Iguaçu
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1898
Place of death Paris