Augusto de Lima

Augusto de Lima

Antônio Augusto de Lima was a Brazilian journalist, poet, musician, magistrate, jurist, professor and politician. He was born in Congonhas de Sabará (now Nova Lima), on April 5, 1859.

De Lima was governor of the state of Minas Gerais, and idealized the transfer of the state's capital from Ouro Preto to Belo Horizonte (then "Curral Del Rey"). In 1903, he became a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and was elected its president in 1928.

In 1906, Augusto de Lima was elected "deputado federal" (house representative) and moved to Rio de Janeiro, the federal district. There, he married Vera Monteiro de Barros de Suckow, granddaughter of Hans Wilhelm von Suckow, Major of the Prussian Army (who foughtNapoleon's army in the Battle of Waterloo) and patron of Brazil’s horse racing — the first breeder of race horses in Brazil.

As a politician, Augusto de Lima defended female suffrage and was also an ecologist. He was strongly devoted to Saint Francis of Assisi, and was responsible for the first forest protection law in Brazil, implemented after a fifteen year battle in congress.

Bibliography

*Contemporâneas, poetry (1887)
*Símbolos poetry (1892)
*Poesias, poetry (1909)
*Noites de sábado, chronicles (1923)
*São Francisco de Assis, poetry (1930)
*Coletânea de poesias (1880-1934)
*Poetry (1959)
*Tiradentes, poetry
*Antes da Sombra, poetry (not released).

External links

* [http://www.academia.org.br/abl/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?sid=163 Augusto de Lima's page — Brazilian Academy of Letters Website (Portuguese) ]


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