João de Barros Ferreira da Fonseca

João de Barros Ferreira da Fonseca (1961)

João de Barros Ferreira da Fonseca (born January 31, 1899 , † 1968 ) was a Portuguese diplomat .

Career

Ferreira da Fonseca studied law at the University of Lisbon , where he also received his doctorate in 1922. Then he entered the diplomatic service of his country. His first assignment abroad took him from 1925 to 1928 as an attaché to the embassy in London . After a brief assignment in the Foreign Office, he returned to London as second secretary and chargé d'affaires from 1929 to 1935. Until 1937 he worked again in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was then chargé d'affaires, from 1939 to 1946 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Union of South Africa in Pretoria. He then worked in the same position from 1946 to 1949 in Nanking, Republic of China . From March 1951 to November 1956 he was the Portuguese envoy in Bonn . Then he was the ambassador of his country in the Netherlands .

Honors

• 1927 Knight, 1939 Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of Christ
• January 5, 1956: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• João de Barros Ferreira da Fonseca , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 14/1957 of March 25, 1957, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on January 13, 2013 ( beginning of article freely available)