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Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga, commonly known as Teófilo (sometimes Theophilo) Braga (; Ponta Delgada
Ponta Delgada

Ponta Delgada is a city and municipality on S?o Miguel Island in the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal. The city proper has a population of 46,102 and the municipality has a population of 64,516 for a total area of 233.0 km?....
, Azores
Azores

The Azores is a Portugal archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America....
, February 24 1843-Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
, January 28 1924), was a Portuguese
Portuguese people

The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....
 politician
Politician

A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
, writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
 and playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
. His debut in literature was "Folhas Verdes" (Green Leaves). He graduated in Law
LAW

LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
 from the University of Coimbra
University of Coimbra

The University of Coimbra is a Portuguese public university in Coimbra, Portugal. It is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in Europe and the world, the oldest university of Portugal, and one of its largest higher education and research institutions....
 and soon departed to Lisbon in 1872 where he taught literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
. Of his literary career one can find book on history of literature, ethnography
Ethnography

Ethnography is a genre of writing that uses fieldwork to provide a descriptive study of human societies. Ethnography presents the results of a holism research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other....
 (mainly his search on popular stories and tradicional songs), poetry
Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
, fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
 and philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
.

He married in 1878 Maria do Carmo Xavier (Porto
Porto

Porto , also Oporto in English, is Portugal's second city and capital of the Norte, Portugal NUTS II region. The city is located in the estuary of the Douro river in northern Portugal....
, November 14, 1841 - September 14, 1911), sister of Júlio de Matos, and had three children, all of whom died young: Joaquim, who died in childhood, Maria da Graça and Teófilo Braga.

ilo Braga became active in Portuguese politics in 1878, when he ran for deputy representing the federalist republicans.






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Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga, commonly known as Teófilo (sometimes Theophilo) Braga (; Ponta Delgada
Ponta Delgada

Ponta Delgada is a city and municipality on S?o Miguel Island in the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal. The city proper has a population of 46,102 and the municipality has a population of 64,516 for a total area of 233.0 km?....
, Azores
Azores

The Azores is a Portugal archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America....
, February 24 1843-Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
, January 28 1924), was a Portuguese
Portuguese people

The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....
 politician
Politician

A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
, writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
 and playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
. His debut in literature was "Folhas Verdes" (Green Leaves). He graduated in Law
LAW

LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
 from the University of Coimbra
University of Coimbra

The University of Coimbra is a Portuguese public university in Coimbra, Portugal. It is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in Europe and the world, the oldest university of Portugal, and one of its largest higher education and research institutions....
 and soon departed to Lisbon in 1872 where he taught literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
. Of his literary career one can find book on history of literature, ethnography
Ethnography

Ethnography is a genre of writing that uses fieldwork to provide a descriptive study of human societies. Ethnography presents the results of a holism research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other....
 (mainly his search on popular stories and tradicional songs), poetry
Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
, fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
 and philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
.

He married in 1878 Maria do Carmo Xavier (Porto
Porto

Porto , also Oporto in English, is Portugal's second city and capital of the Norte, Portugal NUTS II region. The city is located in the estuary of the Douro river in northern Portugal....
, November 14, 1841 - September 14, 1911), sister of Júlio de Matos, and had three children, all of whom died young: Joaquim, who died in childhood, Maria da Graça and Teófilo Braga.

Politics

Teófilo Braga became active in Portuguese politics in 1878, when he ran for deputy representing the federalist republicans. He occupied many posts in the structure of the Portuguese Republican Party
Portuguese Republican Party

The Portuguese Republican Party was a Portugal political party formed during the late years of monarchy that proposed and conducted the substitution of the Constitutional Monarchy by the Portuguese First Republic....
. On January 1 1910 he became an effective member of the Politics Directory of the party joining Basílio Teles, Eusébio Leão, José Cupertino Ribeiro and José Relvas
José Relvas

Jos? Maria Mascarenhas Relvas , Pronunciation , was a Portuguese people politician, son of Carlos Augusto Mascarenhas Relvas de Campos , Hidalgo of the Royal Household, and wife Margarida Am?lia Mendes de Azevedo e Vasconcelos , daughter of the 1st Viscount and 1st Count of Podentes, grand-niece of the 1st Viscount of Tavira and great-grandda...
.

On August 28 1910 he was elected deputy for Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
 and on October 5 of the same year, with the Proclamation of the Republic, he became President of the Provisional Government. His political career ended after serving briefly as President of the Republic
President of Portugal

Portugal has been a republic since 1910, the head of state being a president, whose official title is President of the Portuguese Republic Under the Portuguese Constitution adopted in 1976 in the wake of the Carnation Revolution of 1974, the President is elected for a five-year term, and may serve for a maximum of two consecutive terms....
, replacing Manuel de Arriaga
Manuel de Arriaga

Manuel Jos? de Arriaga Brum da Silveira e Peyrelongue was the first Attorney-General and the first elected President of the Republic of Portugal....
 between May 29 and August 4 1915. He is buried at the Jerónimos Monastery
Jerónimos Monastery

See also Monasterio de Jer?nimos, Madrid, SpainThe Hieronymites Monastery is located in the Bel?m, Lisbon district of Lisbon, Portugal....
 in Belém, near Lisbon.

Bibliography


Poetry


  • Visão dos Tempos (1864)
  • Tempestades Sonoras (1864)
  • Torrentes (1869)
  • Miragens Seculares (1884)
  • Poesia do Direito ( 1865 )


Fiction


  • Contos Fantásticos (1865)
  • Viriato (1904)


Essays


  • As Teorias Literárias - Relance sobre o Estado Actual da Literatura Portuguesa (1865)
  • História da Poesia Moderna em Portugal (1869)
  • História da Literatura Portuguese (Introdução) (1870)
  • História do Teatro Português (1870-1871) - 4 volumes
  • Teoria da História da Literatura Portuguesa (1872)
  • Manual da História da Literatura Portuguesa (1875)
  • Bocage, sua Vida e Época (1877)
  • Parnaso Português Moderno (1877)
  • Traços gerais da Filosofia Positiva (1877)
  • História do Romantismo em Portugal (1880)
  • Sistema de Sociologia (1884)
  • Camões e o Sentimento Nacional (1891)
  • História da Universidade de Coimbra (1891-1902) - 4 volumes
  • História da Literatura Portuguesa (1909-1918) - 4 volumes


Antologies and researches


  • Antologias: Cancioneiro Popular (1867)
  • Contos Tradicionais do Povo Português (1883)


See also

  • List of Presidents of Portugal
    List of Presidents of Portugal

    The complete list of Presidents of the Portuguese Republic consists of the 20 heads of state in the History of Portugal Portugal since the October 5, 1910 revolution that installed a republicanism regime....
  • List of Prime Ministers of Portugal
    List of Prime Ministers of Portugal

    In Portugal, the post of Prime Minister is the head of the country's Government. He/she coordinates the actions of all ministers, represents the Government as a whole, reports his actions and is controlled by the Assembly of the Republic, and keeps the President of Portugal informed....
  • Portuguese First Republic
    Portuguese First Republic

    The Portuguese First Republic spans a complex 16 year period in the history of Portugal Portugal, between the end of the History of Portugal marked by the 5 October 1910 revolution and the 28 May coup d'?tat of 1926....
  • History of Portugal
    History of Portugal

    Portugal is a European nation whose origins go back to the Early Middle Ages. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it Portugal in the Age of Discovery to the status of a world power during Europe's "Age of Discovery" as it Portuguese Empire including possessions in South America, Africa, and Asia....
  • Timeline of Portuguese history (First Republic)
    Timeline of Portuguese history (First Republic)

    This is a historical timeline of Portugal.=First Republic=...
  • Politics of Portugal
    Politics of Portugal

    Politics of Portugal takes place in a framework of a parliamentary system representative democracy republic, whereby the List of Prime Ministers of Portugal is the head of government, and of a multi-party system....
  • Culture of Portugal
    Culture of Portugal

    The culture of Portugal is rooted in the Latin culture of Ancient Rome, with Celtiberians and Lusitanian backgrounds. Portugal, as a country with a long history, is home to several ancient architectural structures, as well as typical art, furniture and literary collections mirroring and chronicling the events that shaped the country and it...