Renato Lessa

Renato Lessa at the Gothenburg Book Fair 2014.

Renato Lessa (* 1954 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian political scientist and has been President of the Brazilian National Library Foundation since 2013.

Career

Lessa received her PhD in 1992 from the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ). He is Professor of Political Theory at the Universidade Federal Fluminense .

In March 2013 he was appointed President of the Brazilian National Library Foundation (Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, FBN) by the Minister of Culture Marta Suplicy , succeeding Galeno Amorim . Here he is taking on the task of implementing a controversial restructuring program for the Brazilian National Library (BN). As president of the foundation, he is also involved in the presentation of his country at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013 and in 2014 at the Göteborg Book Fair , in which Brazil is also a theme country.

Honors

Commander of the Ordem do Mérito Científico

Works (selection)

O Silêncio e sua Representação. Memória e Cinzas. 2009
Montaigne's and Bayle's Variations. Skepticism in the Modern Age. 2009
O Experimento Bayle. Criterion, 2009
O campo da ciência política no Brasil. Revista Estudos Hum (e) anos. 2011

Web links

Brief profile at the Universidade Federal Fluminense
Literature by and about Renato Lessa in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Literature by and about Renato Lessa in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ Renato Lessa assume comando da Biblioteca Nacional . In: O Estado de S. Paulo of March 28, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013 (Portuguese).
^ André Miranda: Renato Lessa fala dos desafios à frente da Biblioteca Nacional . In: O Globo, May 3, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013 (Portuguese).
↑ Interview with Renato Lessa: "We want to show the literary diversity" . In: boersenblatt.net of June 28, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013.

personal data
SURNAME	Lessa, Renato
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian political scientist and cultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rio de Janeiro

[1] Renato Lessa assume comando da Biblioteca Nacional . In: O Estado de S. Paulo of March 28, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013 (Portuguese).

[2] André Miranda: Renato Lessa fala dos desafios à frente da Biblioteca Nacional . In: O Globo, May 3, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013 (Portuguese).

[3] Interview with Renato Lessa: "We want to show the literary diversity" . In: boersenblatt.net of June 28, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013.