Joaquim José da Costa de Macedo

Joaquim José da Costa de Macedo (born April 25, 1777 in Lisbon , † March 15, 1867 in Golegã ) was a Portuguese historian. He was general secretary of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa .

Costa de Macedo held various functions in the Kingdom of Portugal . So he was Fidalgo , adviser to the king ( Conselho de Sua Majestade , compare State Council of Portugal ) and guarda-mór of the National Archives Torre do Tombo . He had an important private library and published several books on the history of Portugal and its colonies.

In 1836 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society , in 1838 to the Berlin Academy of Sciences , and in 1839 as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1839 he was a corresponding member of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro . On August 3, 1839, he was admitted to the Leopoldina as a member ( matriculation no. 1469 ) with the academic surname Clavigo .

He was in command of the Order of the Rose , the Order of Our Lady and the Swedish Order of Vasa and an officer of the Ordem do Cruzeiro .

literature

Esteves Pereira, Guilherme Rodrigues: Portugal: diccionario historico, chorographico, biographico, bibliographico, heraldico, numismatico e artistico. Lisbon 1904–1915.
Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (ed.): Dicionário Biobibliográfico de Sócios Estrangeiros: Século XIX. Rio de Janeiro 2001, volume 1.

Web links

Member entry of Joaquim José da Costa de Macedo at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Individual evidence

^ JJ Da Costa Macedo. In: search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
^ Hartkopf, Werner: The Berlin Academy of Sciences: its members and award winners 1700-1990. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1992, p. 65.
↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 268 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Costa de Macedo, Joaquim José da
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Macedo, Joaquim José da Costa de; Da Costa de Macedo, Joaquim José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Portuguese historian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 1867
Place of death	Golegã

[1] JJ Da Costa Macedo. In: search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .

[2] Hartkopf, Werner: The Berlin Academy of Sciences: its members and award winners 1700-1990. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1992, p. 65.

[3] Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved March 30, 2019 .

[4] Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 268 ( digitized version ).