José Osvaldo de Meira Penna

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José Osvaldo de Meira Penna (born March 14, 1917 in Rio de Janeiro , † July 29, 2017 in Brasília ) was a Brazilian writer and diplomat .

Life

José Osvaldo de Meira Penna was the son of Maria do Nascimento Penna and José Flávio de Meira Penna. He married Dorothy Ann Hesse de Meira Penna. Her children are Cecília, Flávio and Mary Ann. Meira Penna studied at the Liceu Francês, Lycée Janson de Sailly, Paris. He was a Bachelor of Laws from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro . In 1938 he joined the foreign service and completed postgraduate courses at Columbia University in New York, at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich and in 1965 at the Escola Superior de Guerra in Rio de Janeiro .

From 1940 to 1952 he was Vice Consul in Calcutta and Shanghai . From 1947 he was also accredited as second class legation secretary in Ankara and in Nanjing near Chiang Kai-shek . In the same capacity, he was transferred to Ottawa from 1953 to 1956 , and chaired several sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and, in 1958, the General Conference of UNESCO . From 1956 to 1959 he headed the Department of Culture and then had exequatur as Consul General in Zurich until 1964 .

A year earlier, Meira Penna was appointed ambassador in Lagos , Nigeria, from December 6, 1963 to March 6, 1965 . From 1966 to 1967 he was Deputy Secretary General, headed the planning staff and the Eastern Europe and Asia departments.

After the Six Day War , Meira Penna was transferred as ambassador to Tel Aviv from December 5, 1967 to September 22, 1970 , and was also accredited to Nicosia , based in Tel Aviv . From 1971 to 1973 he was attached to the Ministério da Educação e Cultura , directed the Embra films , chaired the Commission for Foreign Affairs and lectured in the Cursos da Associação dos Diplomados da Escola Superior de Guerra .

Meira Penna was appointed ambassador from April 3, 1974, initially until September 16, 1977 in Oslo , where he was also accredited in Reykjavík , and from 1978 to 1979 in Quito , from December 17, 1979 to 1981 in Warsaw and from October 25, 1982 to 1984 in Lima . He chaired the Instituto Liberal de Brasília and was a member of the Mont Pelerin Society .

José Osvaldo de Meira Penna created an extensive literary work.

Works

  • 1944: Shanghai - Aspectos Históricos da China Moderna
  • 1948: O sonho de Sarumoto
  • 1967: Política externa, segurança e desenvolvimento
  • 1972: Psicologia do subdesenvolvimento
  • 1974: Em berço esplêndido
  • 1980: Elogio do Burro
  • 1980: O Brasil na idade da Razão
  • 1982: O Evangelho Segundo Marx
  • 1988: O Dinossauro
  • 1988: Utopia Brasileira
  • 1991: Opção Preferencial Pela Riqueza
  • 1992: Decência yes!
  • 1997: O Espírito das Revoluções
  • 1994: A Ideologia do século XX
  • 1995: Elefantes e Nuvens
  • 1999: Em Berço Esplêndido - Ensaios de psicologia coletiva brasileira
  • 2001: Urânia
  • 2001: Ai que Dor de Cabeça!
  • 2001: Cândido Pafúncio
  • 2002: Da moral em economia
  • 2002: Quando mudam as capitais
  • 2004: Nietzsche ea Loucura
  • 2006: Polemos: uma análise crítica do Darwinismo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rodrigo Constantino: Morre o centenário José Osvaldo de Meira Penna, ícone do liberalismo brasileiro. Gazeta do Povo, July 29, 2017; accessed July 29, 2017 (Portuguese).
  2. ^ JO de Meira Penna . Portal Conservador, accessed on July 30, 2017 (with links to three full-text books; Portuguese).
    Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez: José Osvaldo de Meira Penna: O homem ea sua obra . Ensayistas.org, accessed July 30, 2017 (Portuguese).
    Bruno Garschagen: Podcast 101 - JO de Meira Penna . Instituto Rothbard, December 6, 2013, published on YouTube on December 8, 2013, accessed on July 30, 2017 (video, 32:56 minutes; Portuguese).
predecessor Office successor
Arnaldo Rigueira Brazilian ambassador in Lagos
December 6, 1963 to March 6, 1965 		Arnaldo Leão Marques
Danilo Adão Mayr Brazilian Ambassador in Tel Aviv
December 5, 1967 to September 22, 1970 		Adhamar Soares de Carvalho
Jaime de Souza Gomes Brazilian Ambassador in Oslo
April 3, 1974 to September 16, 1977 		André Teixeira de Mesquita
Alarico Silveira Júnior Brazilian ambassador in Quito from
1978 to December 17, 1979 		Guy Marie de Castro Brandão
Sonia Maria de Castro Brazilian ambassador in Warsaw
December 17, 1979 to 1981 		Gerson Machado Pires Filho
Manuel Emilio Pereira Guilhon Brazilian ambassador in Lima
October 25, 1982 to 1984 		Vasco Mariz
personal data
SURNAME Penna, José Osvaldo de Meira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH 29th July 2017
Place of death Brasília