Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa

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Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa

Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa (born December 13, 1839 in Araruama , † July 16, 1884 in Bananal ) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, speaker, journalist and poet, who is counted among the condorists . Politically, he held several ministerial offices and was President of the Bahia Province.

Life

Sousa, also known only as Pedro Luís , was born in Araruama in the Rio de Janeiro province of the Brazilian Empire, the son of Luis Pereira de Sousa and Carlota Viterbo de Sousa. He received schooling at the Colégio de São Vicente de Paulo in Nova Friburgo , where he made the acquaintance of Casimiro de Abreu , who later became known as the "poet of slaves". He studied law at the Faculdade de Direito do Largo de São Francisco and graduated in 1860, whereupon he settled as a lawyer in Rio de Janeiro .

Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa.

He had joined the Partido Liberal , a second party alongside the conservatives . Between 1864 and 1866 and 1878 and 1881 he was a member of the German Empire for two legislative periods, where he made a name for himself as a speaker. Sousa was first foreign minister under Emperor Peter II , then minister of transport and agriculture until 1881. In 1882 he was appointed president (governor) of the province of Bahia for the first time and again within the year 1882 to 1884. He was still aiming for a seat in the senate , but died at the age of 44.

He was awarded the Order of the Rose (Grand Dignitar) and in 1880 was given the title of Imperial Councilor ( conselheiro do Império ).

Posthumously he was named after the chair 31 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL) in honor of his poetic work. Together with Tobias Barreto , the founder of Condorismo , Castro Alves and Joaquim de Sousa Andrade , he belonged to this third phase of Brazilian literary romanticism . José Veríssimo remarked to him (abbreviated here): “He left behind half a dozen poems, the best in an epic tone ('Os voluntários da morte', 'Terribilis Dea'), which all of Brazil knew, recited and admired.” He continues with "... it is not enough to secure it a first class place in our poetry".

literature

  • Pedro Lyra: Pedro Luís. Cadeira 31, patron. Academia Brasileira de Letras, Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo 2013. (Biography, 61 p., Portuguese).

Works

  • Terribilis Dea. 1860 (poetry).
  • Os voluntários da morte. 1864 (epic poem dedicated to Poland).
  • A sombra de Tiradentes e Nunes Machado. 1866 (poetry).
  • Prisca Fides. 1876 ​​(poetry).

Still appeared posthumously

  • Poesias. 1897.
  • Dispersos. 1934, published by the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

None of his works have been translated into German.

Web links

Commons : Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bio-Bibliography of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
  2. ↑ Quoted from the Portuguese in: Bio-Bibliography of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
predecessor Office successor
Antonio Moreira de Barros Foreign Minister
1880-1881 		Franklin Dória

Manuel Buarque de Macedo 		Minister of Transport
and
Minister of Agriculture
1881
José Antônio Saraiva
João dos Reis de Sousa Dantas Governor of Bahia
1882 		Augusto Álvares Guimarães
Augusto Álvares Guimarães Governor of Bahia
1882-1884 		João Rodrigues Chaves
personal data
SURNAME Sousa, Pedro Luís Pereira de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian lawyer, politician, public speaker, journalist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Araruama
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1884
Place of death Bananal