Tobias Barreto

Tobias Barreto
Born Tobias Barreto de Meneses
(1839-06-07)7 June 1839
Tobias Barreto, Sergipe, Brazil
Died 26 June 1889(1889-06-26) (aged 50)
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Occupation Poet, philosopher, critic, jurist
Nationality Brazilian
Alma mater Faculdade de Direito do Recife
Subject Social engagement
Literary movement Romanticism

Tobias Barreto de Meneses (June 7, 1839 – June 26, 1889) was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, jurist and literary critic.[1] He is famous for creating the "Condorism" and revolutionizing Brazilian Romanticism and poetry. He is patron of the 38th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.[2]

Life

Barreto was born in Vila de Campos do Rio Real (renamed "Tobias Barreto" in his honor in 1909), a town in the southern part of Sergipe. He learnt his first letters with Manuel Joaquim de Oliveira Campos, and he also studied Latin with priest Domingos Quirino. Barreto was so dedicated to the course that, in the future, he would become a Latin professor in Itabaiana.[2]

In 1861 he left for Bahia in order to attend a seminary; however, having soon realized that it was not his vocation, he quit. Between 1864 and 1865 he became a private tutor in many subjects. He also tried to become a Latin (and later Philosophy) teacher at the Ginásio Pernambucano, but was not successful at the institution.

Barreto was an enthusiast of the German culture, such an interest being induced by the reading of Ernst Haeckel and Ludwig Büchner. Following Haeckel, he was a noted early Darwinian in Brazil.[2][3][1] For this reason he established a German language-newspaper, Deutsche Kampfer (German for The German Fighter). It was short-lived and had little influence.

Moving away to Escada, he married a colonel's daughter. He spent ten years there before returning to Recife. He died there in 1889 at a friend's house.

Works

References

  1. 1 2 Lopes, Nei (2015). Dicionário escolar afro-brasileiro (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Selo Negro. p. 163. ISBN 9788587478955.
  2. 1 2 3 "Biografia" (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Academia Brasileira de Letras. 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
  3. ↑ Glick, Thomas F. (2013). "Darwinism in Latin America". The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
Preceded by
New creation
Brazilian Academy of Letters - Patron of the 38th chair 		Succeeded by
Graça Aranha (founder)
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