- Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda
Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda (
April 23 ,1892 -December 22 ,1979 ) was a prominentBrazil ianjurist ,judge ,diplomat and professor ofLaw at theFederal University of Pernambuco . He was a member of theBrazilian Academy of Letters .He is best known for the extent of his works, which covers several areas of knowledge, including
Law ,Sociology ,Philosophy ,Politics andMathematics , and were published in Portuguese, German, French, Spanish and Italian.Life
Pontes de Miranda was born in
Maceió and studied inRecife , receiving his diploma inLaw in 1911. He got married twice; in 1914, to Maria Beatriz Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda; and in 1952, to Cardilli Pontes de Miranda; five children would result from these two marriages.After beginning his career as a
lawyer , Pontes de Miranda become ajudge in 1924. In 1939, he left theCourt of Appeal in which he presided, to become theBrazil ianambassador inColombia .Pontes de Miranda was also a professor. He taught law at the
Hague Academy of International Law in 1932 and received honorary degrees from several Brazilian major universities.He died at the age of 87, in
Rio de Janeiro , victim of aheart attack . Twenty years after his death, Pontes de Miranda is still one of the most cited Brazilian jurists.Works
Pontes de Miranda has written 29 works, which spread over 144 volumes, ranging from
scientific toliterary subjects. His literary efforts include bothprose andpoetry . However, he is best regarded for his scientific works, and, especially, his eight treatises, all of which are dedicated to the study oflaw .Although Pontes de Miranda has written important treatises in several areas of law, including
Constitutional Law ,Criminal Law andProcedural Law , his best known work is the Treatise ofPrivate Law (Tratado de Direito Privado), whose first volumes were published in 1955, but which was concluded only in 1970. This treatise is a vast piece of work, comprising 60 volumes and 30 thousand pages. It is considered one of the longest treatises ever written by a single person.
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