José Veríssimo Dias de Matos
José Veríssimo Dias de Matos was born on the 8 th April 1857; he died on the 2 nd December 1916. He was a Brazilian writer, educator, a ...
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José Veríssimo Dias de Matos was born on the 8th April 1857;
he died on the 2nd December 1916. He was a Brazilian writer,
educator, a journalist, a critic and one of the founding members of the
Brazilian Academy of Letters.
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José Veríssimo Dias de Matos was born in the city of Óbidos,
Pará, he was the son of José Veríssimo de Matos and Ana Flora Dias de Matos. He
spent his early school days in Manaus and Belem. He was sent to the city of Rio
de Janeiro to continue with his studies in the year 1869, though he went back
because of his poor health. He devoted his life to teaching and journalism.
From the year 1895 to the year 1899, José
Veríssimo Dias de Matos went back to the city of Rio de Janeiro to take the
position of a professor in Collegio Pedro II.
Works
Ø Primeiras Páginas (1878).
Ø Emilio Littré (1882).
Ø Diversos: Cenas da Vida Amazônica
(1886).
Ø Questão de Limites: Pará e Amazonas
(1889).
Ø Estudos Brasileiros (2 Vols, 1889–1904).
Ø Educação Nacional (1890).
Ø A Amazônia: Aspectos Econômicos
(1892).
Ø A Pesca na Amazônia (1895).
Ø A Instrução Pública e a Imprensa
(1900).
Ø Estudos de Literatura (6 vol., 1901–1907).
Ø Homens e Coisas Estrangeiras
(3 Vols, 1902–1910).
Ø Que é Literatura e outros Escritos
(1907).
Ø Interesses da Amazônia
(1915).
Ø Letras e Literatos (1936).
Selected
articles
Ø A
Revolução Chilena e a Questão da América Latina, Revista Brasileira, Vol. 111, 1895, pp. 108–121.
Ø Gregório
de Mattos, Revista da Academia
Brazileira de Letras, Vol. 2, 1912, p. 27–44.
