Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins

Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins

Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins (born April 30, 1845 in Lisbon , † August 24, 1894 ibid) was a Portuguese writer , historian , editor , politician and an important thinker of his country in the 19th century. He represented socialist ideas.

Life

Oliveira Martins held various positions in the course of his life, for example he was manager of a mine in Córdoba , Spain from 1870 to 1874 , returned to Portugal in 1874 and was administrator of the railway line from Porto to Póvoa de Varzim . From 1887 to 1888 he worked in Porto and returned to Lisbon again in the same year.

He left school early and married at the age of 19.

Together with Antero de Quental he edited the "Revista Occiedental".

He was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of History and the Academy of Sciences in Lisbon.

The monument to Oliveira Martins in Lisbon was erected in his honor .

Activity as a politician

He was city councilor in Viana do Castelo (1895) and Porto (1887) and a member of the Portuguese parliament from 1886 to 1894. In 1892 he was also Minister of Finance of Portugal for a good four months .

Oliveira Martins as a man of letters

His work carries socialist ideas. He was close to the group around the Coimbra School for the Renewal of Portuguese Literature. In his writings, which have not yet been translated into German, he mainly dealt with historical and social questions.

Work (selection)

• Phoebus Moniz, 1897, novel.
• Portugal eo socialismo (Portugal and Socialism), 1873.
• Historia de Portugal, (History of Portugal), 1879.
• Vida de Nuno Alvarez Perreira (Life of Nuno Alvarez Perreira), Historical Biography, 1893.
• O principe perfeito (The Perfect Prince), 1895, posthumously.

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• Knaur's Lexicon of World Literature;
• Bertelsmann Lexicon 2000;
• Major works of Portuguese and Spanish literature, Kindler's New Lexicon;
• http://www.1911.encyclopedia.org/  ;
• Biography on the side of the port. Cultural institute