Edgar Prestage

Edgar Prestage ( born July 20, 1869 in Manchester, England, † 1951) was an English historian, author, translator and expert on the history of Portugal.

Life

Prestage began with learning the Portuguese language, while he attended Radley College near Abingdon ( Oxfordshire ). In 1886 he converted, together with his mother, to the Catholic faith. In 1891 he joined the Balliol College at Oxford University in History from the modern era. In the same year he visited Portugal for the first time. In the years 1896 to 1907, he practiced as a lawyer in the law firm of his father in Manchester.

Already in 1893 he translated the letters of a Portuguese nun from French into English. In collaboration with CR Beazley he translated the two-volume edition of the Chronica do Descobrimento e Conquista da Guiné the Royal chronicler Gomes Eanes de Portugal Azurara. During frequent visits Lisbon for research purposes in the years 1891 to 1906, he met the members of the group of intellectuals Os Vencidos know da Vida ( The life of the vanquished ). He was also introduced in the salon of the writer Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho, the Brazilian poet Gonçalves Crespo 's widow. In 1907 he married the daughter of the couple Maria Christina. As the wife Prestages was not socially acceptable in England because of their Brazilian descent, the couple went from Southport, Lancashire at that time, back to Lisbon. 1918 Maria Christina committed suicide.

Until 1919, declined as Prestage to England, he buried himself in libraries, to complete his scientific work. As a traditionalist and monarchist he could make friends with the First Republic of Portugal and remained a friend of the exiled King Manuel II never. In later years he supported the dictatorial regime of Salazar.

In the following decades Prestage wrote several books about the Portuguese explorer, writer and diplomat of the country and translated some texts into English.

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