Mario Augusto Teixeira de Freitas

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Mário Augusto Teixeira de Freitas (born March 31, 1890 in São Francisco do Conde in Bahia Recôncavo , † February 22, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian statistician .

Life

Mário Augusto Teixeira de Freitas was a great-grandson of Augusto Teixeira de Freitas . From 1908 he was employed in the General Directorate for Statistics in the Ministry of Agriculture, Transport and Public Works and graduated in 1911 with a degree in law and social science at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro .

In 1920 he was commissioned with the census in Minas Gerais . He headed the statistical office in the state of Minas Gerais and published a statistical and a demographic yearbook and in 1926 the Atlas Corográfico Municipal de Minas Gerais (City Map Collection of the Municipios of Minas Gerais).

In 1930 Getúlio Vargas entrusted him with the management of the statistics department in the Ministry of Education and developed a concept for the collection and analysis of statistical data in Brazil, which resulted in the 1934 decree establishing the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística , the IBGE.

In 1958, the community of São José de Itanhém was renamed Teixeira de Freitas after him .

literature

  • Teixeira de Freitas: pensamento e ação. Edição comemorativa do centenário do seu nascimento. Fundação Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Centro de Documentação e Disseminação de Informações, Rio de Janeiro 1990.
  • Teixeira de Freitas ea criação do IBGE. Correspondência de um homem singular e plural. IBGE, Rio de Janeiro 2016, ISBN 978-85-240-4376-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Atlas Corográfico Municipal , uma publicação oficial, datada de 1926, constituída pelo conjunto de mapas municipais do estado de Minas Gerais.
  2. ^ Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística , cv
personal data
SURNAME Freitas, Mário Augusto Teixeira de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian statistician
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Sao Francisco do Conde in Bahia Recôncavo
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1956
Place of death Rio de Janeiro