Ruy Barbosa
Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira (born November 5, 1849 in Salvador da Bahia , † March 1, 1923 in Petrópolis , Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian writer , lawyer and politician .
Life
Ruy Barbosa, also spelled Rui Barbosa , was a federal member of parliament, diplomat, senator and later finance minister in Brazil. For its significant participation in the Hague Convention and the Hague Peace Conferences of 1907, he earned his nickname "Eagle of the Hague" (English. Eagle of The Hague ). For the presidency of Brazil in 1910 and again in 1919, however, he applied unsuccessfully.
At the age of 19, Ruy Barbosa gave his first public speech on the abolition of slavery . For the rest of his life he remained an uncompromising advocate of civil liberties and rights. His liberal ideas had a decisive influence on the drafting of the republican constitution of 1891. He supported monetary policy concepts such as fiat money as opposed to the gold standard for Brazil. During his tenure as Minister of Finance of Brazil, he carried out far-reaching reforms of the Brazilian financial system and implemented an extremely expansionary monetary policy . The result, however, was chaos and instability: the so-called “Fiat experiment” was seen as a terrible mistake.
Academia Brasileira de Letras
Ruy Barbosa is one of the founders of the Academia Brasileira de Letras . He was the first holder of the Academy's # 10 chair. Ruy Barbosa chose Evaristo da Veiga as patron .
Honors
In honor of Ruy Barbosa, the city of Orobó in the state of Bahia , which today (2013) has a population of over 30,000 , was renamed Ruy Barbosa in 1922.
Works
- Obras completas de Rui Barbosa. Rio de Janeiro. 125 vol. Digitized
literature
- Humberto Bastos: Rui Barbosa, ministro da independência econômica do Brasil . Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro 1949.
- Virginia N. Mills: Barbosa, Ruy. In: Warren F. Kuehl (ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists. Greenwood Press, Westport 1983, ISBN 0-31-322129-4 , pp. 51-53.
- Charles W. Turner: Ruy Barbosa. Brazilian crusader for the essential freedoms . Abingdon-Cokesburg Press, New York 1945.
Web links
- Biography of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Portuguese)
- Newspaper article about Ruy Barbosa in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barbosa, Ruy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barbosa de Oliveira, Ruy; Barbosa, Rui; Barbosa de Oliveira, Rui |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian writer, lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salvador da Bahia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1923 |
| Place of death | Petrópolis , Rio de Janeiro |