Joaquim Manuel de Macedo

Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (* June 24, 1820 in Itaboraí, Brazil, † April 11, 1882 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian writer, physician, teacher, poet, playwright and journalist. He was known especially for his novel "A Moreninha ". He is patron of the seat 20 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras in Rio de Janeiro.

Life

Joaquim Manuel de Macedo was born in 1820 in the city Itaboraí, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. His parents were Severino de Carvalho Macedo and Benigna Catarina da Conceição. He completed his studies in medicine in 1844 and opened a practice in the hinterland of Rio de Janeiro. In the same year he published his novel A Moreninha. In 1849 he founded the magazine Guanabara, together with Manuel de Araújo Porto- alegre and Gonçalves Dias Antônio. In this magazine, large parts of his poem A nebulosa were published.

After his return to Rio, he gave up the profession of physician and became a teacher of history and geography at the Colégio Pedro II in the traditional capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro. He had close contacts with the Brazilian imperial family and was tutor of the children of Princess Isabel of Brazil. He also was a member of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute ( IHGB ).

During his last years he had to struggle with mental suffering.

He was married to Maria Catarina de Abreu Sodré, a cousin of the poet Álvares de Azevedo. According to some historians have argued, it is the model for the main character of his novel A Moreninha.

Honors

From Salvador de Mendonça, one of the founders of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, he was elected patron of the seat 20 and thus belongs to the so-called " Immortals" ( Imortais ) of the Academy.

Works

Novels

  • A Moreninha (1844 )
  • O Moço Loiro (1845 )
  • Rosa ( 1849)
  • Vice Tina (1853 )
  • O Forasteiro (1855 )
  • Rio do Quarto (1869 )
  • A Luneta Mágica (1869 )
  • As Vítimas - algozes (1869 )
  • As Mulheres de Mantilha (1870-1871)

Political Satire

  • A Carteira do Meu Tio (1855 )
  • Memórias do Meu Tio Sobrinho do (1867-1868)

Chronicles

  • Memórias da Rua do Ouvidor
  • To Passeio pela Cidade do Rio de Janeiro
  • Labirinto

Plays

Tragedies

  • O cego (1845 )
  • COBE (1849 )
  • Lusbela (1863 )
  • O Fantasma Branco ( 1856)
  • O Primo since Califórnia (1858 )
  • Luxo e Vaidade (1860 )
  • Cincinato Quebra - loucas (1873 )

Poetry

  • A nebulosa ( 1857)

Biographies

  • Ano Biográfico Brasileiro (1876 )
  • Mulheres célebres (1878 )

Geography

  • Noções de corographia do Brasil (1873 ), translated into German by MP Alves Nogueira and Wilhelm Theodor von Schiefler appear under the title Geographical Description of Brazil, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1873

Medic treatises

  • Considerações sobre a Nostalgia
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