Antonio Pereira de Sousa Caldas

Sousa Caldas

António Pereira de Sousa Caldas (born November 24, 1762 in Rio de Janeiro , † March 2, 1814 ibid) was a Portuguese poet and author.

At the age of eight, the sickly but gifted boy was sent by his parents to an uncle in Lisbon for training. At the age of 16 he began studying mathematics at the University of Coimbra . He developed an interest in French philosophy . In 1781 he was condemned by the Inquisition for his views . As a “heretic, naturalist, deist , blasphemous” and because of other views related to his sympathy for French philosophy, he was put in the Lisbon Convention of Rilhafoles for six months . As a kind of educational measure, he had to study the catechism . In 1784 he wrote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau excited Ode Ao homem selvagem and remained theologically unorthodox.

After a trip to Europe in 1789, he became an orthodox Catholic and was ordained a priest in 1790. However, he did not completely abandon his earlier ideas and tried in his writings to reconcile the true Catholic faith with the thoughts of political freedoms of French philosophy.

In 1801 he returned to Rio de Janeiro and finally settled there in 1808. Most of his works were published posthumously. B. the Obras poéticas published by Francisco de Borja Garção Stockler in 1836 .

Honor

Posthumously Sousa Caldas was named after the seat 34 (Cadeira) of the Academia Brasileira de Letras , the Brazilian Academy of Literature, founded in 1897 on the model of the Académie Française . He is one of the so-called "immortals" (imortais) of the academy. The first chair holder was founding member João Manuel Pereira da Silva from 1897 to 1898.

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SURNAME	Sousa Caldas, António Pereira de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Portuguese-Brazilian poet and author
DATE OF BIRTH	November 24, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH	March 2, 1814
Place of death	Rio de Janeiro