Tomas Cabreira senior

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Tomas Cabreira senior , actually Tomas Antonio da Guarda Cabreira , 3. Conde (Count) de Lagos and 3rd Visconde (Baron) de Vale de Mata , (* 23 January 1865 in Tavira , Algarve , Portugal ; † 4. December 1918 the same place ), was a Portuguese scientist, author, military, Freemason, and politician. He was one of the most important figures in the young Portuguese republic. He was Finance Minister of Portugal in 1914.

Live and act

He was born in the Algarvian city of Tavira in 1865 as the descendant of a family with strong military traditions. His grandfather was Field Marshal General of Portugal and first Conde de Lagos and first Visconde de Vale de Mata, his father was a simple general in the army. Tomas Cabreira himself only made it to the position of colonel until 1918 , as he himself had little interest in the military.

In 1883 he enrolled in the Mathematics Faculty of the University of Coimbra , later enrolled at the Escola Politecnica de Lisboa in Lisbon in 1896. He graduated in civil engineering (1893) as well as in organic chemistry and organic mineralogy . The doctorate took place in 1916 at the University of Lisbon. In 1907 he was a co-founder of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, whose second president he was from 1907 to 1918. In the same year he also founded the Universidade Popular de Lisboa, the first adult education center in Portugal.

As a politician, he was a member of the first republican parliament and the Constituent Assembly of Portugal in 1911 and finance minister in 1914.

He was the 9th and 13th President of the Great Order of the Temple Oriente of Lusitania, the greatest Masonic Order in Portugal and the Countries of the Portuguese Tongue.

His son, the amateur author, homosexual and highly sensitive Tomas Cabreira junior , was neglected and not treated well by him and he drove him to suicide with his harshness .

There is a vocational school in Faro and a street in Portimão named after him.

He died in 1918 at the age of 53 in his hometown of Tavira.

Works (selection)

  • Velasquez é um Pintor Português (1908)
  • O Problema Financeiro ea sua Solução (1912)
  • O Problema Bancário Português (1915)
  • A Questão Corticeira, (1915)
  • Zonas Turísticas ", (1915)
  • O Problema Tributário Português (1916)
  • A Defesa Económica Portuguesa (1917)
  • O Algarve Económico (1918)
  • A Política Agrícola Nacional (1920)
  • A Composição da Linguagem de alguns Povos Pré- Históricos (1923)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Infopédia: Artigo de apoio Infopédia - Tomás Cabreira. Retrieved November 29, 2018 (European Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Tomás Cabreira . In: Algarve Primeiro . ( algarveprimeiro.com [accessed November 29, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Cabreira, Tomas senior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cabreira, Tomas Sr .; Guarda Cabreira, Tomas Antonio da (real name); Mata, 3rd Conde de Lagos and 3rd Visconde de Vale de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese scientist, author, military, freemason and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Tavira , Algarve , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1918
Place of death Tavira , Algarve , Portugal