Tomás de Melo Breyner Andresen

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Tomás de Melo Breyner Andresen (also Tomás de Mello Breyner Andresen , born April 11, 1922 in Lordelo do Ouro , Porto ; † January 3, 1993 in São Brás de Alportel ) was a diplomat from Portugal .

Career

Andresen was born the great-grandson of a Danish immigrant in the northern Portuguese city of Porto. He is the younger brother of the Portuguese writer Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen , the Portuguese author Miguel Sousa Tavares is his nephew.

After joining the Foreign Service of the Portuguese foreign ministry , he himself was ambassador , as a fully responsible leader of a message , the first time in 1977 when he Portuguese Ambassador to Italy was, including multiple accreditation , among others for Malta . In 1981 he was appointed to Vienna as a representative of Portugal in Austria .

On January 19, 1981 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique (see also the list of carriers of the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique (Grand Cross) ).

Individual evidence

  1. Biographical data in the entry on Tomás de Melo Breyner Andresen on www.geneall.net, accessed on December 7, 2019
  2. Hit list for Tomás de Melo Breyner Andresen , Diplomatic Institute in the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on December 7, 2019