Joaquim Manuel de Macedo

Joaquim Manuel de Macedo was born on the 24th June 1820; he died on the 11th April 1882. He was a Brazilian novelist, doctor, teacher, a poet, a playwright and a journalist. He is well known for his romance work called A Moreninha.

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Joaquim Manuel de Macedo occupied the 20th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Life
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo was born in the city of Itaboraí in the year 1820, the son of Severino de Macedo Carvalho and Benigna Catarina da Conceição. He finished his studies in Medicine in the year 1844 and started his practice in the profession in the inlands of the city of Rio. It was about that same year that Joaquim Manuel de Macedo published a romance book called A Moreninha. He was the founder of the magazine of the country called Guanabara together with Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre and Gonçalves Dias in the year 1849.
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo moved back to the city of Rio and stopped practicing medicine and became a teacher of History and Geography at Colégio Pedro II. He was connected to the Brazilian Imperial Family.
At the time of his last days in life, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo suffered mental disturbances, this caused his health to be worse and that led to his death also on the 11th May 1882 at the age of 61.
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo was, married to Maria Catarina de Abreu Sodré, who was related to the poet of the country called Álvares de Azevedo.
Works
Novels
 A Moreninha (1844)
 O Moço Loiro (1845)
 Os Dois Amores (1848)
 Rosa (1849)
 Vicentina (1853)
 O Forasteiro (1855)
 Os Romances da Semana (1861)
 Rio do Quarto (1869)
 A Luneta Mágica (1869)
 As Vítimas-algozes (1869)
 As Mulheres de Mantilha (1870 — 1871)
Political satires
 A Carteira do Meu Tio (1855)
 Memórias do Sobrinho do Meu Tio (1867 — 1868)
Chronicles
 Memórias da Rua do Ouvidor
 Um Passeio pela Cidade do Rio de Janeiro
 Labirinto
Theater plays
Tragedies
 O Cego (1845)
 Cobé (1849)
 Lusbela (1863)
Comedies
 O Fantasma Branco (1856)
 O Primo da Califórnia (1858)
 Luxo e Vaidade (1860)
 A Torre em Concurso (1863)
 Cincinato Quebra-Louças (1873)
Poetry
 A Nebulosa (1857)
Biographies
 Ano Biográfico Brasileiro (1876)
 Mulheres Célebres (1878)
Medical thesis
 Considerações sobre a Nostalgia