Vítor Viana

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Vítor Viana (born December 23, 1881 in Rio de Janeiro , † August 21, 1937 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist and historian .

Life

Vítor Viana was the son of Ernesto da Cunha de Araújo, professor at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes , and Teresa de Figueiredo Araújo Viana.

After studying humanities and law, he devoted himself to journalism. The national constitutional problems formed the thematic focus. He developed into an important writer for economics and finance and wrote first for O Século , then moved to O Paiz , most recently to Jornal do Commercio , where he rose to editor-in-chief and director. He was considered one of the best-informed commentators on the First World War . He published literary reviews in Livros Novos and as editor of the Notas Pedagógicas .

He worked as a librarian at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio, was a university professor at the Escola de Altos Estudos and professor of industrial geography and industrial history at the Escola Normal de Artes e Ofícios Venceslau Brás . In 1922 he published the history of the economic development of Brazil . From 1926 to 1929 he was editor of the Boletim do Ministério das Relações Exteriores .

Viana was a member of the Foreign Trade Council, the Geographical Society in Rio de Janeiro and, following a proposal by Amaro Cavalcanti, based on his writings on the war and the League of Nations, in the Sociedade Brasileira de Direito Internacional , the Brazilian Society for International Law.

Honors

Academia Brasileira de Letras

Vítor Viana became a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras , the Brazilian Academy of Literature in Rio de Janeiro, on April 11, 1935 , and the third holder of seat No. 12 in succession to Antônio Augusto de Lima .

Works

  • Falsos troféus de Ituzaingó. 1920.
  • Histórico da formação econômica do Brasil. 1922.
  • A contecimentos de julho de 1924. 1925.
  • A borracha, estudo econômico e estatístico. 1927.
  • O Brasil ea Sociedade das Nações. 1927.
  • As eleições presidenciais nos Estados Unidos. 1928.
  • A política financeira do presidente Washington Luís. 1928.
  • O Banco do Brasil, como Banco Central de emissão e redesconto. 1929.
  • Per aspera ad astra. 1930
  • O cardinalato. 1930.
  • Uma constituição do seculo XX; o código de Weimar ea moderna Allemanha. Tip. do Jornal do Commercio, Rio de Janeiro 1931.
  • A constituição austriaca, a racionalisação do poder ea representação de classes. Tip. do Jornal do Commercial, Rio de Janeiro 1933.
  • Discursos: Rumos da diplomacia. 1937.
  • Cidade penitenciária. 1937.
  • Fronteiras do Brasil no regime colonial, tese n.17, apresentada ao Congresso de História Nacional comemorativo do centenário do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro. 1939.
  • Santo Antônio de Lisboa, Militar no Brasil. 1942.
  • Fontes da história da Igreja Católica no Brasil. 1954.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of the ABL , accessed on November 18, 2010
  2. ^ Biography of the ABL , accessed on November 18, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Viana, Vítor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian journalist, writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1937
Place of death Rio de Janeiro