Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was born on the 11 th July 1902 in the city of Sao Paulo; he died on the 24 th 1982 in Sao Paulo. He was a Bra...
http://worldhitz4u.blogspot.com/2014/12/sergio-buarque-de-holanda.html?m=0
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was born on the 11th July 1902 in
the city of Sao Paulo; he died on the 24th 1982 in Sao Paulo. He was
a Brazilian writer, historian, a journalist and a member of the Academia Paulista de Letras.
source of picture: www.elfikurten.com.br
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda moved to the city of Rio de Janeiro with the
family in the year 1921. He took part in the Week of Modern Art of
the year 1922 and was nominated by Mário de Andrade and Oswaldo de Andrade to
be the representative of the Klaxon magazine in the city of Rio.
He got his degreeof
Bachelor of Law from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in the year
1925. He moved to Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, in Espírito Santo after he had
gotten the invitation by the director of the newspaper of the country called O Progresso. Together with Prudente
de Morais Neto, he founded the magazine called Estética in the same year.
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda moved back to the city of Rio in the year 1927
and began to work as a columnist of the Jornal do Brasil and as a worker of the UPA. He moved to Europe as a
correspondent of the Diários Associados in the year 1929 and he settled at the
city of Berlin and it was there that he met Friedrich Meinecke.
He moved back to the
country in the year 1936 and worked as an assistant-teacher to Henri Hauser in
the chair of the modern day history at the Universidade do Distrito Federal. He
also taught comparative literature as an assistant professor Trouchon.
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda published his book Raizes do Brazil, and the
book is seen as one of the most crucial book of the country.
When Universidade do Distrito Federal was
closed in the year 1939, Sérgio Buarque
de Holanda was given an invitation to be the director of the publishing section
of the Instituto Nacional do Livro by Augusto Meyer. He traveled to the
United States in the year 1941 when he got the invitation from the State
Departament sector of International Relations. After three year in the year
1944, he became the director Divisão de Consulta da Biblioteca Nacional do Rio
de Janeiro, and in the year 1945, Sérgio
Buarque de Holanda tok part in the Democratic Left foundation and moved to the city of Sao Paulo to take
part in the Writers’ Congress. He was elected to be the president of the Federal
District Sector of the Association of Writers in the country.
In the year 1946, Sérgio
Buarque de Holanda moved to Sao Paulo and it was there that he replaced his
ex-professor Anso de E. Taunay and became the
director of the Museu Paulista. He became the professor of Economic Historyof
the country in the Escola de Sociologia e Política and replaced Roberto
Simonsen. He moved to Paris for three academic
conferences that were held at Sorbonne in the year 1949.
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda moved to Italy with the family in the year 1952
and it was there that he stayed for two years as a visiting professor in the
Studies Department of Brazil of the University of Rome.
In the year 1957, Sérgio
Buarque de Holanda won the Edgard Cavalheiro Prize from the Instituto
Nacional do Livro after he had published his book called Caminhos e Fronteiras.
He was the chairman of History of the
Brazilian Civilization in Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas of
the University of São Paulo, with his thesis called Visão do Paraíso - os motivos edênicos no descobrimento e na
colonização do Brasil.
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda became the first director of the Instituto
de Estudos Brasileiros of University of São Paulo in the year 1962 and from the
year 1963 to the year 1967, Sérgio
Buarque de Holanda travelled as a visiting professor to the many Universities
in Chile and in the United States and he also took part in cultural mission in
collaboration with UNESCO in Peru and in Costa Rica. He retired from his job as
a professor of the University of Sao Paulo in the year 1969 in solidarity with
his colleagues and was affected by AI-5. He also got the Governador do
Estado Prize in the year 1967 in the genre of literature.
In the year 1979, as an intellectual of the country, Sérgio Buarque de
Holanda was handed the Juca Pato Prize.
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda died in the city of Sao Paulo on the 24th
April 1982. Among the most famous works he wrote are Raízes do Brasil, which he wrote in the year 1936,
Cobra de Vidro of the year 1944, Caminhos e Fronteiras, which he wrote in the
year 1957 and Visão do Paraíso of the year 1959.
He was the father of the singer-songwriters of the country, Chico
Buarque and Miúcha
Most
Important Books
Ø Expansão Paulista em Fins do Século XVI e Princípio
do Século XVII. São Paulo, 1948.
Ø Do Império
à República. São Paulo, 1972. (História Geral da
Civilização Brasileira, Tomo II, vol. 5).
Ø Sergio Buarque de Hollanda: História
(org. Maria Odila Dias). São Paulo, 1985.
Ø O espírito e a letra (org. Antonio Arnoni
do Prado) 2 vols. São Paulo, 1996.
Ø Para uma nova história
(org. Marcos Costa). São Paulo, 2004 (collection of texts).
