Joaquim Nabuco
Joaquim Nabuco ( born August 19, 1849 in Recife, Pernambuco, † January 17, 1910 in Washington DC; complete name Joaquim Aurélio Barreto de Araújo Nabuco ) was a Brazilian politician, diplomat, historian, lawyer and journalist. He was one of the founders of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Life
Joaquim Nabuco was the son of a landowner, lawyer and politician José Tomás Nabuco de Araújo (1813-1878) and his wife Ana de Sá Barreto Benigna Nabuco de Araújo. Like his father, Joaquim Nabuco engaged in the fight against slavery. As a member of the Brazilian parliament he supported the 1878 campaign of the abolitionists. In 1878 he founded the Brazilian Society Against Slavery ( Sociedade Brasileira Antiescravidão ), the relevant portion of the abolition of slavery in 1888 was (see Lei Aurea ). However, the reasons were less humanitarian convictions, but rather the view that slavery was responsible for much of the country's problems. He feared that the retention of slavery deterred immigrants from Europe and thus the process of branqueamento ( the government's attempt to increase the proportion of light-skinned in the Brazilian population) would slow down.
Nabuco was a supporter of the monarchy and retired after the proclamation of the Republic in 1889 from political life back. In 1897 he was a founding father of the Academia Brasileira de Letras. As a patron of the Academy - Chair No. 27, he chose Antônio Maciel Monteiro Peregrino ( 1804-1868 ).
From 1905 to 1910 he was Ambassador of the Republic of Brazil in the United States. He spent several years in the UK and France. In 1906 he was the chairman of the 3rd Pan-American Congress in Rio de Janeiro.
As a main literary work is considered his autobiography Minha formação ( " My Training" ) of 1900.
Works
- Camões e os Lusíadas (1872 )
- L' Amour est Dieu - lyric poems (1874 )
- O Abolicionismo (1883 )
- Campanha abolicionista no Recife - 1885
- O erro do Imperador - History (1886 )
- Escravos - Poem (1886 )
- Porque continuo a water monarquista (1890)
- Balmaceda - Biography (1895 )
- O dever dos monarquistas (1895 )
- A intervenção Estrangeira durante a revolta - A Diplomatic History ( 1896)
- To estadista do Império - Biography, 3 vols ( 1897-1899 )
- Minha formação - Memories (1900)
- Escritos e Discursos Literarios (1901 )
- Pensées detachees et souvenirs (1906 )
- Discursos e Conferencias nos Estados Unidos - Translation from English by Artur Bomilcar (1911 )
- Obras completas ( 14 volumes ) published by Celso Cunha ( 1947-1949 )
In German language is so far none of his works were published.