José Caeiro da Mata

José Caeiro da Mata (born  January 6, 1877 in Arraiolos , †  January 3, 1963 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese lawyer , diplomat and politician . He served as Foreign Minister from 1933 to 1935, from 1944 to 1947 as Minister for Popular Education and from 1947 to 1950 again as Foreign Minister of his country . In addition, he worked from 1919 as a professor of international private law at the University of Lisbon and from 1931 to 1936 as assistant judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice .

Life

José Caeiro da Mata was born in 1877 in Arraiolos and completed his academic training in 1899 at the law school of the University of Coimbra , in the 1905 he the licentiate acquired and a year later received his doctorate . After graduating, he stayed at the university as an assistant and later as adjunct professor for criminal law and criminal sociology before becoming adjunct professor for international private law at the University of Lisbon in 1919 . From 1908 to 1910 he was a member of the Regeneration Party in the Portuguese Parliament. After the proclamation of the republic, he initially withdrew from politics and devoted himself again to his academic interests.

In the 1920s he represented his home country several times at international conferences. In the government of the Estado Novo , which emerged from 1926 after a military coup , he served as Portuguese Foreign Minister from April 1933 to March 1935 . In addition, he worked from 1931 to 1936 as an assistant judge ( juge-suppléant ) at the Permanent International Court of Justice in The Hague . Between 1935 and 1939 he headed the Portuguese delegations at the meetings of the League of Nations on several occasions . From 1941 to 1944 he was Portuguese ambassador to France , at the time of the German occupation he was based in Vichy . After the end of the Second World War , he represented Portugal in founding the Organization for European Economic Cooperation .

In the government of António de Oliveira Salazar , he served as Minister of National Education from September 1944 to February 1947 and, after a government reshuffle, as Foreign Minister from February 1947 to August 1950. During this time, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949 and NATO was established , of which Portugal was one of the founding members. From 1945 until his death, José Caeiro da Mata served as President of the Academia Portuguesa da História (Portuguese Academy of History). He died in Lisbon in 1963 .

Works (selection)

• Direito Civil Português - Part geral. Coimbra 1910
• Direito Comercial Português. Coimbra 1912
• Direito Criminal Português. Two volumes. Coimbra 1912
• História do Direito Português. Coimbra 1912
• Expansão Económica de Portugal. Lisbon 1933
• Ao Serviço de Portugal. Three volumes. Lisbon 1937–1944 and 1951

literature

• Biographical Notes concerning the Judges and Deputy-Judges. M. José Caeiro da Matta, Deputy Judge. In: Seventh Annual Report of the Permanent Court of International Justice. AW Sijthoff's Publishing, Leiden 1931, pp. 38/39
• Mosés Bensabat Amzalak : Elogio do Prof. Doutor José Caeiro da Mata. Academia Portuguesa da História, Lisbon 1976