Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior Explained

Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior
Birth Date:17 February 1845
Birth Place:Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Death Place:Lisbon, Portugal

Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior (17 February 1845, in Rio de Janeiro – 20 May 1898, in Lisbon) was a Brazilian diplomat, poet, novelist and dramaturgist.[1]

He undertook his education in the Faculdade de Direito do Recife in 1869, in the same class of the writer Araripe Júnior. His works switched from Romanticism to Parnasianism. During his career, he also used the pseudonym Oscar d'Alva.[2]

As a diplomat, he lived in Santiago de Chile, Roma and Lisbon, where he finally stayed and he met intellectuals such as Eça de Queiroz, Ramalho Ortigão, Guerra Junqueiro or Fialho de Almeida. He was a member and one of the founders of Academia Brasileira de Letras.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Gama, Joâo de Saldanha da . Catalogo da exposiçǎo permanente dos cimelios da Bibliotheca Nacional . 1885 . Leuzinger . pt-BR.
  2. Book: Horch, Hans Jürgen . Antônio de Castro Alves (1847 - 1871): Seine Sklavendichtung und ihre Beziehungen zur Abolition in Brasilien . 2013-02-07 . Walter de Gruyter . 978-3-11-138917-2 . de.