Teixeira de Pascoaes

Teixeira de Pascoaes, the pseudonym of Joaquim Teixeira Pereira de Vasconcelos ( born November 2, 1877 in Amarante, † December 14, 1952 in Gatão ( province Porto ) ), was a Portuguese poet and mystic.

Teixeira de Pascoaes came from a high in Portugal prestigious aristocratic family. He wrote poetry, plays, biographies, novels and essays, which were based on Portuguese history. His work here circled a kind of mystical longing pantheistic cult.

Pascoaes belonged to the direction of the so-called Saudosismos. Together with Antonio Sergio and Raul Proença he was a leader of the awakening movement of the " Portuguese Renaissance". Along with Leonardo Coimbra and Jaime Cortesão he gave ( The eagle dt ) published the magazine "A Águia ".

Large parts of his life Pascoaes on the estate of his family " Sao Jao de Gatão " in Amarante where he worked on the land and also wrote many of his poems, of which have a number of the landscape of the local area on the subject.

From 1939 to 1947 he hosted there also the German writer and translator of his works into German and Dutch Albert Vigoleis Thelen.

Literature (English )

• Napoleon. Mirror of the Antichrist, translated from the Portuguese and with a text to Pascoaes AV Thelen, ISBN 978-3-931135-30-0
• Letters to Teixeira de Pascoaes, ISBN 3-931135-47-0
• Paul. The poet of God, in 1938, the lowlands -Verlag, Amsterdam and Leipzig
• Hieronymus. The poet of friendship, 1941 Lowland Verlag, Amsterdam and Leipzig
• The dark word. Aphorisms, 1949 Rascher Verlag, Zurich
• Napoleon., 1997, Bonn, Weidle Publishing, ISBN 978-3-931135-30-0