Manuel de Oliveira Lima
Oliveira was born in Recife, Brazil, on December 25, 1867. His mother was from Recife and his father was from the Portuguese city of Porto. In 1873, the family moved to Lisbon, where Oliveira graduated from the Faculty of Letters (today part of the University of Lisbon) in 1888 with a degree in classical and modern literature.
Oliveira began working as a journalist at the age of 14, when he founded "Correio do Brazil", a monthly journal published in Lisbon. His articles criticized the hold that oligarchs had over the newly founded Brazilian Republic and so gained fame as a republican. He graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon in 1887, and in 1890 began working for the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as a diplomat in Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Japan, and the United States. He also led the first Brazilian diplomatic business mission to Japan in 1901.
He was nominated but not confirmed as ambassador to the United Kingdom. His nomination was subtly opposed by the British after Oliviera said Brazil should remain neutral in World War I. He also made enemies in Brazil after opposing the country's expansionist policies (such as the annexation of the Peruvian state of Acre, which was proposed by José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco). He argued that Brazil expansion should only come through trade.
Oliveira loved to write. A Germanophile, he loved German philosophy and wrote extensively on the topic. He authored three books on Japan, and a biography of João VI (King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1816 to 1822). He cultivated a number of authors as friends, including Gilberto Freyre and a young Machado de Assis.
Fond of books, Oliveira collected the third-largest library in Brazil, smaller only than the National Library of Brazil and the Library of the University of São Paulo. First secretary of the Brazilian legation at the Brazilian embassy in the United States beginning in 1896, he brought his library with him. He donated the 40,000-volume collection to the Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1916 out of a fear that it would not receive adequate care in Brazil. For the next four years, Oliveira also acted as the collection's librarian and curator.
The Olivera Lima Collection library holds books, serials, pamphlets, maps and broadsides, as well as more than 700 manuscripts. It is a unique collection of Portuguese chronicles from the age of exploration; histories of Portuguese religious orders; important works and original documents about the social, cultural, and diplomatic history of 19th-century Portugal and Brazil; and the complete works of a wide range of Portuguese and Brazilian writers. The library also houses the Oliveira Lima Family Papers; 60 volumes of scrapbooks containing Oliveira's writings; and a collection of art, maps, and 19th- and early 20th-century photographs. The Oliveira Lima Collection is considered the finest collection of Luso-Brazilian materials in the U.S. There is no other specialized collection of comparable depth anywhere else in the world -- particularly for the study of Portuguese expansion in the 16th century and for the social and cultural history of Brazil from the arrival of the Portuguese court (1808) to 1930.
From 1923 until his death in 1928, Oliveira served as professor of international law at CUA. In 1924, he was appointed Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Law of Recife.
Oliveira married Flora de Oliveira Lima (née Cavalcanti de Albuquerque). Oliveira died suddenly at his home in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 1928. He was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery. His tombstone does not include his name; rather, it is inscribed with the Portugese phrase "Aqui jaz um amigo dos livros" (Here lies a friend of books).
Wikipedia (translated to English)
Manoel de Oliveira Lima ( Recife , December 25, 1867 - Washington , March 24 , 1928 ) was a writer , critic , diplomat, historian and journalist. He represented Brazil in several countries and was a visiting professor at Harvard University . Founding member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters .
Passionate about books, he collected them throughout his life and set up the third largest collection on Brazil, second only to the National Library of Brazil and to the library of the University of São Paulo . The Oliveira Lima Library , located at the Catholic University of Washington in the United States , has 58,000 books in addition to correspondence exchanged with intellectuals, more than six hundred paintings, and countless scrapbooks with news from newspapers. Part of the collection is still one of the three busts of Dom Pedro I sculpted by Marc Ferrez (uncle of the photographer of the same name ), the only one of the three made in bronze.
Oliveira Lima began acting as a journalist at the age of fourteen in Correio do Brazil, a newspaper he founded in Lisbon.
He graduated from the Superior Course of Letters of Lisbon , which later became the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon in 1887, and in 1890 began to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. He served as a diplomat in Portugal , Belgium , Germany , Japan , Venezuela, England and the United States.
He was in charge of business of the first Brazilian diplomatic mission in Japan . In 1901 he gave an opinion contrary to the Brazilian project of receiving Japanese immigrants . He then wrote to the Foreign Ministry warning about the danger of the Brazilian mingling with "inferior races"
He even got spoken to the Brazilian embassy in London but the Senate did not approve his nomination. Oliveira Lima was disliked by the British government for arguing that the ideal that Brazil remained neutral in World War I and its intellectual proximity to Germany.
It also made enemies within the country, partly because it did not approve of the expansionist attitude of the Republic in situations such as the annexation of Acre by the Baron of Rio Branco .
Oliveira Lima always liked reading and writing. Part of his Germanophile fame comes from the praise he devoted to German philosophical works when he was a literary critic. He was the author of the third Brazilian book on Japan, published in 1903. The biography he wrote about King John VI is considered one of the main works on this historical figure. He was also friends with writers, being intimate with Gilberto Freyre and exchanging letters with Machado de Assis .
In 1916, Oliveira Lima donated his huge library to the Catholic University of America in Washington, and moved there in 1920. It made him the first librarian and organizer of the collection, a function he held until his death when was succeeded by his wife Flora de Oliveira Lima.
In 1924 he became professor of International Law at the Catholic University of America. In the same year he was appointed honorary professor of the Faculty of Law of Recife .
He died in 1928 and was buried in Mount Olivet, Washington. On his tombstone is not his name, but the phrase " Here lies a friend of books ".
Works
Aspects of Brazilian colonial literature, 1896
La Langue Portugaise, La Littérature brésilienne, 1909
Machado de Assis et son oeuvre littéraire, 1909
The Independence movement; Aspects of Brazilian history and culture, 1923
Selected work, 1971
Diplomatic History of Brazil: The Recognition of the Empire (eBook)
The diplomat, writer and critic Oliveira Lima published numerous works of history, among them: Memory on the discovery of Brazil , History of the recognition of the Empire,, In Japan , Secretary of the King , Dom João VI in Brazil . On this last work of history that Oliveira Lima published is important to emphasize its importance for the rearrangement of the Brazilian historiography, since it is considered as being a classic of the national historiography according to the Lima an intellectual that have varied conferences on the formation of Brazilian nationality. The illustrious work "Dom João VI in Brazil" is considered to be one of the great works of the author Oliveira Lima. This assessment is made by many scholars and authors related to significant questions about Brazil. Some authors and writers such as Gilberto Freyre, Octavio Tarquínio de Souza and Wilson Martins have already had the opportunity to write about the reports of Oliveira Lima contained in this work of great prestige for Brazilian historiography. There are very important facts about the international situation of Portugal in 1808, the arrival of the court in Brazil, the formation of the first ministry, and the first steps, regarding intellectual emancipation, about private life with his wife Carlota Joaquina and among other topics debated throughout the work. The last topic "The Queen D. Carlota" is the focus analyzed here on this work. The Queen Carlota Joaquina, Carlota Joaquina de Bourbon, or in this case Carlota Joaquina de Oliveira Lima (I use this term, because of the story from the vision and studies of the intellectual Lima), came to live in Brazil together with her husband Dom João VI, in 1808. The king and the queen that I am referring to were married in 1790. From the date of arrival in Brazil, I was present in the Brazilian imaginary and already witnessed by the Spaniard and Portuguese, a woman with many desires and wishes and also with conflict in the midst of diplomatic political relations. It would be this queen, according to Oliveira Lima, responsible for the defamation of Dom João VI. It was able to increase or generate new complications to the Portuguese monarchy. In the eyes of the author here treated, Oliveira Lima, the greatest desire or one of the greatest wishes of Queen Carlota Joaquina was to take the place of the king, that is, of her husband, Dom João VI. She would not be a woman who had been born to be a princess consort. She is a woman of royalty with masculine features and attitudes that did not fit her skeleton, endowed with a masculine soul. Carlota Joaquina was so terrible that she managed to implant in the ideals of diplomatic politics that her husband had endured as his mother, D. Maria I, and this caused the councilors to rethink authority over the throne of Brazilian lands. She was seen as a "hallucinating" mother and a "impudent" woman. It is important to note that D. Carlota had children and among them he met Don Miguel, considered by her to be the favorite and very docile son. In many of D. Carlota's letters to D. João VI they are written in an ironic way, calling him often a darling of my heart. Some of these letters can be found in the archive of the Imperial Museum in Rio de Janeiro and also in the book "Carlota Joaquina unpublished letters" written by the historian and writer Francisca Azevedo.
Oliveira Lima occupied the 11th chair of the Pernambuco Academy of Letters , and was, after his death, remembered as patron of the 31st chair, in the expansion of the Academy's vacancies.
In 1897, he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters , as founder of the chair 39, which has as patron Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen .
The Oliveira Lima Library (also known as the Ibero American Library) is located at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. It was founded in 1920, when Brazilian diplomat and scholar Manoel de Oliveira Lima and his wife, Flora de Oliveira Lima shipped their private library to the university after obtaining an agreement that the library would remain a separate, autonomous facility and that Manoel would be the first librarian. The initial collection included 45,000 volumes of books primarily focused on colonial Portuguese Brazilian history, literature and culture. Many of the rare books are original sources, on Portuguese philology and etymology, which complement the other volumes in the collection.
After establishing the library and setting it up, it opened in 1923 with Manoel serving as librarian until his death in 1928.Upon his death, Flora took over managing the collection. Under her direction, the collection grew to 58,000 volumes. In addition, it contains around 200,000 pages of correspondence; 6 dozen albums of newspaper clippings[1] of the couple’s various diplomatic posts which included Lisbon, Berlin, Washington, DC, London, Tokyo, Caracas, Brussels and Stockholm;[3] and around 600 works of art including engravings, maps, paintings, sculptures and watercolors. Some of the artwork includes a landscape of Pernambuco painted by Dutch artist Frans Post (1612-1680); a screen showing the Largo do Machado in Rio de Janeiro by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (1755-1830); a bronze bust of Pedro I by sculptor Marc Ferrez (1788-1850); the only existing color copy of Rerum per Octenium in Brasilia by Gaspar Barleus (1584-1648); the first book in French about Brazil, La Singularité de la France Anthartique, by Franciscan priest André Thévet (1502-1590), among many others.
In a digitizing project completed in conjunction with a partnership between Gale Cengage Learning and the library, most of the 19th- and 20th-century pamphlets in the collection have been digitized. Some 17,000 Portuguese and Brazilian books and pamphlets are available in the digital collection. According to restrictions imposed by the wills of the de Oliveira Limas, none of the materials may leave the premises. The Oliveira Lima Library is located in the underground level of Mullen Library at 620 Michigan Avenue N.E., Washington, DC 20064.
Oliveira was born in Recife, Brazil, on December 25, 1867. His mother was from Recife and his father was from the Portuguese city of Porto. In 1873, the family moved to Lisbon, where Oliveira graduated from the Faculty of Letters (today part of the University of Lisbon) in 1888 with a degree in classical and modern literature.
Oliveira began working as a journalist at the age of 14, when he founded "Correio do Brazil", a monthly journal published in Lisbon. His articles criticized the hold that oligarchs had over the newly founded Brazilian Republic and so gained fame as a republican. He graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon in 1887, and in 1890 began working for the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as a diplomat in Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Japan, and the United States. He also led the first Brazilian diplomatic business mission to Japan in 1901.
He was nominated but not confirmed as ambassador to the United Kingdom. His nomination was subtly opposed by the British after Oliviera said Brazil should remain neutral in World War I. He also made enemies in Brazil after opposing the country's expansionist policies (such as the annexation of the Peruvian state of Acre, which was proposed by José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco). He argued that Brazil expansion should only come through trade.
Oliveira loved to write. A Germanophile, he loved German philosophy and wrote extensively on the topic. He authored three books on Japan, and a biography of João VI (King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1816 to 1822). He cultivated a number of authors as friends, including Gilberto Freyre and a young Machado de Assis.
Fond of books, Oliveira collected the third-largest library in Brazil, smaller only than the National Library of Brazil and the Library of the University of São Paulo. First secretary of the Brazilian legation at the Brazilian embassy in the United States beginning in 1896, he brought his library with him. He donated the 40,000-volume collection to the Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1916 out of a fear that it would not receive adequate care in Brazil. For the next four years, Oliveira also acted as the collection's librarian and curator.
The Olivera Lima Collection library holds books, serials, pamphlets, maps and broadsides, as well as more than 700 manuscripts. It is a unique collection of Portuguese chronicles from the age of exploration; histories of Portuguese religious orders; important works and original documents about the social, cultural, and diplomatic history of 19th-century Portugal and Brazil; and the complete works of a wide range of Portuguese and Brazilian writers. The library also houses the Oliveira Lima Family Papers; 60 volumes of scrapbooks containing Oliveira's writings; and a collection of art, maps, and 19th- and early 20th-century photographs. The Oliveira Lima Collection is considered the finest collection of Luso-Brazilian materials in the U.S. There is no other specialized collection of comparable depth anywhere else in the world -- particularly for the study of Portuguese expansion in the 16th century and for the social and cultural history of Brazil from the arrival of the Portuguese court (1808) to 1930.
From 1923 until his death in 1928, Oliveira served as professor of international law at CUA. In 1924, he was appointed Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Law of Recife.
Oliveira married Flora de Oliveira Lima (née Cavalcanti de Albuquerque). Oliveira died suddenly at his home in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 1928. He was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery. His tombstone does not include his name; rather, it is inscribed with the Portugese phrase "Aqui jaz um amigo dos livros" (Here lies a friend of books).
Wikipedia (translated to English)
Manoel de Oliveira Lima ( Recife , December 25, 1867 - Washington , March 24 , 1928 ) was a writer , critic , diplomat, historian and journalist. He represented Brazil in several countries and was a visiting professor at Harvard University . Founding member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters .
Passionate about books, he collected them throughout his life and set up the third largest collection on Brazil, second only to the National Library of Brazil and to the library of the University of São Paulo . The Oliveira Lima Library , located at the Catholic University of Washington in the United States , has 58,000 books in addition to correspondence exchanged with intellectuals, more than six hundred paintings, and countless scrapbooks with news from newspapers. Part of the collection is still one of the three busts of Dom Pedro I sculpted by Marc Ferrez (uncle of the photographer of the same name ), the only one of the three made in bronze.
Oliveira Lima began acting as a journalist at the age of fourteen in Correio do Brazil, a newspaper he founded in Lisbon.
He graduated from the Superior Course of Letters of Lisbon , which later became the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon in 1887, and in 1890 began to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. He served as a diplomat in Portugal , Belgium , Germany , Japan , Venezuela, England and the United States.
He was in charge of business of the first Brazilian diplomatic mission in Japan . In 1901 he gave an opinion contrary to the Brazilian project of receiving Japanese immigrants . He then wrote to the Foreign Ministry warning about the danger of the Brazilian mingling with "inferior races"
He even got spoken to the Brazilian embassy in London but the Senate did not approve his nomination. Oliveira Lima was disliked by the British government for arguing that the ideal that Brazil remained neutral in World War I and its intellectual proximity to Germany.
It also made enemies within the country, partly because it did not approve of the expansionist attitude of the Republic in situations such as the annexation of Acre by the Baron of Rio Branco .
Oliveira Lima always liked reading and writing. Part of his Germanophile fame comes from the praise he devoted to German philosophical works when he was a literary critic. He was the author of the third Brazilian book on Japan, published in 1903. The biography he wrote about King John VI is considered one of the main works on this historical figure. He was also friends with writers, being intimate with Gilberto Freyre and exchanging letters with Machado de Assis .
In 1916, Oliveira Lima donated his huge library to the Catholic University of America in Washington, and moved there in 1920. It made him the first librarian and organizer of the collection, a function he held until his death when was succeeded by his wife Flora de Oliveira Lima.
In 1924 he became professor of International Law at the Catholic University of America. In the same year he was appointed honorary professor of the Faculty of Law of Recife .
He died in 1928 and was buried in Mount Olivet, Washington. On his tombstone is not his name, but the phrase " Here lies a friend of books ".
Works
Aspects of Brazilian colonial literature, 1896
La Langue Portugaise, La Littérature brésilienne, 1909
Machado de Assis et son oeuvre littéraire, 1909
The Independence movement; Aspects of Brazilian history and culture, 1923
Selected work, 1971
Diplomatic History of Brazil: The Recognition of the Empire (eBook)
The diplomat, writer and critic Oliveira Lima published numerous works of history, among them: Memory on the discovery of Brazil , History of the recognition of the Empire,, In Japan , Secretary of the King , Dom João VI in Brazil . On this last work of history that Oliveira Lima published is important to emphasize its importance for the rearrangement of the Brazilian historiography, since it is considered as being a classic of the national historiography according to the Lima an intellectual that have varied conferences on the formation of Brazilian nationality. The illustrious work "Dom João VI in Brazil" is considered to be one of the great works of the author Oliveira Lima. This assessment is made by many scholars and authors related to significant questions about Brazil. Some authors and writers such as Gilberto Freyre, Octavio Tarquínio de Souza and Wilson Martins have already had the opportunity to write about the reports of Oliveira Lima contained in this work of great prestige for Brazilian historiography. There are very important facts about the international situation of Portugal in 1808, the arrival of the court in Brazil, the formation of the first ministry, and the first steps, regarding intellectual emancipation, about private life with his wife Carlota Joaquina and among other topics debated throughout the work. The last topic "The Queen D. Carlota" is the focus analyzed here on this work. The Queen Carlota Joaquina, Carlota Joaquina de Bourbon, or in this case Carlota Joaquina de Oliveira Lima (I use this term, because of the story from the vision and studies of the intellectual Lima), came to live in Brazil together with her husband Dom João VI, in 1808. The king and the queen that I am referring to were married in 1790. From the date of arrival in Brazil, I was present in the Brazilian imaginary and already witnessed by the Spaniard and Portuguese, a woman with many desires and wishes and also with conflict in the midst of diplomatic political relations. It would be this queen, according to Oliveira Lima, responsible for the defamation of Dom João VI. It was able to increase or generate new complications to the Portuguese monarchy. In the eyes of the author here treated, Oliveira Lima, the greatest desire or one of the greatest wishes of Queen Carlota Joaquina was to take the place of the king, that is, of her husband, Dom João VI. She would not be a woman who had been born to be a princess consort. She is a woman of royalty with masculine features and attitudes that did not fit her skeleton, endowed with a masculine soul. Carlota Joaquina was so terrible that she managed to implant in the ideals of diplomatic politics that her husband had endured as his mother, D. Maria I, and this caused the councilors to rethink authority over the throne of Brazilian lands. She was seen as a "hallucinating" mother and a "impudent" woman. It is important to note that D. Carlota had children and among them he met Don Miguel, considered by her to be the favorite and very docile son. In many of D. Carlota's letters to D. João VI they are written in an ironic way, calling him often a darling of my heart. Some of these letters can be found in the archive of the Imperial Museum in Rio de Janeiro and also in the book "Carlota Joaquina unpublished letters" written by the historian and writer Francisca Azevedo.
Oliveira Lima occupied the 11th chair of the Pernambuco Academy of Letters , and was, after his death, remembered as patron of the 31st chair, in the expansion of the Academy's vacancies.
In 1897, he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters , as founder of the chair 39, which has as patron Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen .
The Oliveira Lima Library (also known as the Ibero American Library) is located at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. It was founded in 1920, when Brazilian diplomat and scholar Manoel de Oliveira Lima and his wife, Flora de Oliveira Lima shipped their private library to the university after obtaining an agreement that the library would remain a separate, autonomous facility and that Manoel would be the first librarian. The initial collection included 45,000 volumes of books primarily focused on colonial Portuguese Brazilian history, literature and culture. Many of the rare books are original sources, on Portuguese philology and etymology, which complement the other volumes in the collection.
After establishing the library and setting it up, it opened in 1923 with Manoel serving as librarian until his death in 1928.Upon his death, Flora took over managing the collection. Under her direction, the collection grew to 58,000 volumes. In addition, it contains around 200,000 pages of correspondence; 6 dozen albums of newspaper clippings[1] of the couple’s various diplomatic posts which included Lisbon, Berlin, Washington, DC, London, Tokyo, Caracas, Brussels and Stockholm;[3] and around 600 works of art including engravings, maps, paintings, sculptures and watercolors. Some of the artwork includes a landscape of Pernambuco painted by Dutch artist Frans Post (1612-1680); a screen showing the Largo do Machado in Rio de Janeiro by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (1755-1830); a bronze bust of Pedro I by sculptor Marc Ferrez (1788-1850); the only existing color copy of Rerum per Octenium in Brasilia by Gaspar Barleus (1584-1648); the first book in French about Brazil, La Singularité de la France Anthartique, by Franciscan priest André Thévet (1502-1590), among many others.
In a digitizing project completed in conjunction with a partnership between Gale Cengage Learning and the library, most of the 19th- and 20th-century pamphlets in the collection have been digitized. Some 17,000 Portuguese and Brazilian books and pamphlets are available in the digital collection. According to restrictions imposed by the wills of the de Oliveira Limas, none of the materials may leave the premises. The Oliveira Lima Library is located in the underground level of Mullen Library at 620 Michigan Avenue N.E., Washington, DC 20064.
Manuel de Oliveira Lima
Oliveira was born in Recife, Brazil, on December 25, 1867. His mother was from Recife and his father was from the Portuguese city of Porto. In 1873, the family moved to Lisbon, where Oliveira graduated from the Faculty of Letters (today part of the University of Lisbon) in 1888 with a degree in classical and modern literature.
Oliveira began working as a journalist at the age of 14, when he founded "Correio do Brazil", a monthly journal published in Lisbon. His articles criticized the hold that oligarchs had over the newly founded Brazilian Republic and so gained fame as a republican. He graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon in 1887, and in 1890 began working for the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as a diplomat in Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Japan, and the United States. He also led the first Brazilian diplomatic business mission to Japan in 1901.
He was nominated but not confirmed as ambassador to the United Kingdom. His nomination was subtly opposed by the British after Oliviera said Brazil should remain neutral in World War I. He also made enemies in Brazil after opposing the country's expansionist policies (such as the annexation of the Peruvian state of Acre, which was proposed by José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco). He argued that Brazil expansion should only come through trade.
Oliveira loved to write. A Germanophile, he loved German philosophy and wrote extensively on the topic. He authored three books on Japan, and a biography of João VI (King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1816 to 1822). He cultivated a number of authors as friends, including Gilberto Freyre and a young Machado de Assis.
Fond of books, Oliveira collected the third-largest library in Brazil, smaller only than the National Library of Brazil and the Library of the University of São Paulo. First secretary of the Brazilian legation at the Brazilian embassy in the United States beginning in 1896, he brought his library with him. He donated the 40,000-volume collection to the Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1916 out of a fear that it would not receive adequate care in Brazil. For the next four years, Oliveira also acted as the collection's librarian and curator.
The Olivera Lima Collection library holds books, serials, pamphlets, maps and broadsides, as well as more than 700 manuscripts. It is a unique collection of Portuguese chronicles from the age of exploration; histories of Portuguese religious orders; important works and original documents about the social, cultural, and diplomatic history of 19th-century Portugal and Brazil; and the complete works of a wide range of Portuguese and Brazilian writers. The library also houses the Oliveira Lima Family Papers; 60 volumes of scrapbooks containing Oliveira's writings; and a collection of art, maps, and 19th- and early 20th-century photographs. The Oliveira Lima Collection is considered the finest collection of Luso-Brazilian materials in the U.S. There is no other specialized collection of comparable depth anywhere else in the world -- particularly for the study of Portuguese expansion in the 16th century and for the social and cultural history of Brazil from the arrival of the Portuguese court (1808) to 1930.
From 1923 until his death in 1928, Oliveira served as professor of international law at CUA. In 1924, he was appointed Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Law of Recife.
Oliveira married Flora de Oliveira Lima (née Cavalcanti de Albuquerque). Oliveira died suddenly at his home in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 1928. He was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery. His tombstone does not include his name; rather, it is inscribed with the Portugese phrase "Aqui jaz um amigo dos livros" (Here lies a friend of books).
Wikipedia (translated to English)
Manoel de Oliveira Lima ( Recife , December 25, 1867 - Washington , March 24 , 1928 ) was a writer , critic , diplomat, historian and journalist. He represented Brazil in several countries and was a visiting professor at Harvard University . Founding member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters .
Passionate about books, he collected them throughout his life and set up the third largest collection on Brazil, second only to the National Library of Brazil and to the library of the University of São Paulo . The Oliveira Lima Library , located at the Catholic University of Washington in the United States , has 58,000 books in addition to correspondence exchanged with intellectuals, more than six hundred paintings, and countless scrapbooks with news from newspapers. Part of the collection is still one of the three busts of Dom Pedro I sculpted by Marc Ferrez (uncle of the photographer of the same name ), the only one of the three made in bronze.
Oliveira Lima began acting as a journalist at the age of fourteen in Correio do Brazil, a newspaper he founded in Lisbon.
He graduated from the Superior Course of Letters of Lisbon , which later became the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon in 1887, and in 1890 began to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. He served as a diplomat in Portugal , Belgium , Germany , Japan , Venezuela, England and the United States.
He was in charge of business of the first Brazilian diplomatic mission in Japan . In 1901 he gave an opinion contrary to the Brazilian project of receiving Japanese immigrants . He then wrote to the Foreign Ministry warning about the danger of the Brazilian mingling with "inferior races"
He even got spoken to the Brazilian embassy in London but the Senate did not approve his nomination. Oliveira Lima was disliked by the British government for arguing that the ideal that Brazil remained neutral in World War I and its intellectual proximity to Germany.
It also made enemies within the country, partly because it did not approve of the expansionist attitude of the Republic in situations such as the annexation of Acre by the Baron of Rio Branco .
Oliveira Lima always liked reading and writing. Part of his Germanophile fame comes from the praise he devoted to German philosophical works when he was a literary critic. He was the author of the third Brazilian book on Japan, published in 1903. The biography he wrote about King John VI is considered one of the main works on this historical figure. He was also friends with writers, being intimate with Gilberto Freyre and exchanging letters with Machado de Assis .
In 1916, Oliveira Lima donated his huge library to the Catholic University of America in Washington, and moved there in 1920. It made him the first librarian and organizer of the collection, a function he held until his death when was succeeded by his wife Flora de Oliveira Lima.
In 1924 he became professor of International Law at the Catholic University of America. In the same year he was appointed honorary professor of the Faculty of Law of Recife .
He died in 1928 and was buried in Mount Olivet, Washington. On his tombstone is not his name, but the phrase " Here lies a friend of books ".
Works
Aspects of Brazilian colonial literature, 1896
La Langue Portugaise, La Littérature brésilienne, 1909
Machado de Assis et son oeuvre littéraire, 1909
The Independence movement; Aspects of Brazilian history and culture, 1923
Selected work, 1971
Diplomatic History of Brazil: The Recognition of the Empire (eBook)
The diplomat, writer and critic Oliveira Lima published numerous works of history, among them: Memory on the discovery of Brazil , History of the recognition of the Empire,, In Japan , Secretary of the King , Dom João VI in Brazil . On this last work of history that Oliveira Lima published is important to emphasize its importance for the rearrangement of the Brazilian historiography, since it is considered as being a classic of the national historiography according to the Lima an intellectual that have varied conferences on the formation of Brazilian nationality. The illustrious work "Dom João VI in Brazil" is considered to be one of the great works of the author Oliveira Lima. This assessment is made by many scholars and authors related to significant questions about Brazil. Some authors and writers such as Gilberto Freyre, Octavio Tarquínio de Souza and Wilson Martins have already had the opportunity to write about the reports of Oliveira Lima contained in this work of great prestige for Brazilian historiography. There are very important facts about the international situation of Portugal in 1808, the arrival of the court in Brazil, the formation of the first ministry, and the first steps, regarding intellectual emancipation, about private life with his wife Carlota Joaquina and among other topics debated throughout the work. The last topic "The Queen D. Carlota" is the focus analyzed here on this work. The Queen Carlota Joaquina, Carlota Joaquina de Bourbon, or in this case Carlota Joaquina de Oliveira Lima (I use this term, because of the story from the vision and studies of the intellectual Lima), came to live in Brazil together with her husband Dom João VI, in 1808. The king and the queen that I am referring to were married in 1790. From the date of arrival in Brazil, I was present in the Brazilian imaginary and already witnessed by the Spaniard and Portuguese, a woman with many desires and wishes and also with conflict in the midst of diplomatic political relations. It would be this queen, according to Oliveira Lima, responsible for the defamation of Dom João VI. It was able to increase or generate new complications to the Portuguese monarchy. In the eyes of the author here treated, Oliveira Lima, the greatest desire or one of the greatest wishes of Queen Carlota Joaquina was to take the place of the king, that is, of her husband, Dom João VI. She would not be a woman who had been born to be a princess consort. She is a woman of royalty with masculine features and attitudes that did not fit her skeleton, endowed with a masculine soul. Carlota Joaquina was so terrible that she managed to implant in the ideals of diplomatic politics that her husband had endured as his mother, D. Maria I, and this caused the councilors to rethink authority over the throne of Brazilian lands. She was seen as a "hallucinating" mother and a "impudent" woman. It is important to note that D. Carlota had children and among them he met Don Miguel, considered by her to be the favorite and very docile son. In many of D. Carlota's letters to D. João VI they are written in an ironic way, calling him often a darling of my heart. Some of these letters can be found in the archive of the Imperial Museum in Rio de Janeiro and also in the book "Carlota Joaquina unpublished letters" written by the historian and writer Francisca Azevedo.
Oliveira Lima occupied the 11th chair of the Pernambuco Academy of Letters , and was, after his death, remembered as patron of the 31st chair, in the expansion of the Academy's vacancies.
In 1897, he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters , as founder of the chair 39, which has as patron Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen .
The Oliveira Lima Library (also known as the Ibero American Library) is located at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. It was founded in 1920, when Brazilian diplomat and scholar Manoel de Oliveira Lima and his wife, Flora de Oliveira Lima shipped their private library to the university after obtaining an agreement that the library would remain a separate, autonomous facility and that Manoel would be the first librarian. The initial collection included 45,000 volumes of books primarily focused on colonial Portuguese Brazilian history, literature and culture. Many of the rare books are original sources, on Portuguese philology and etymology, which complement the other volumes in the collection.
After establishing the library and setting it up, it opened in 1923 with Manoel serving as librarian until his death in 1928.Upon his death, Flora took over managing the collection. Under her direction, the collection grew to 58,000 volumes. In addition, it contains around 200,000 pages of correspondence; 6 dozen albums of newspaper clippings[1] of the couple’s various diplomatic posts which included Lisbon, Berlin, Washington, DC, London, Tokyo, Caracas, Brussels and Stockholm;[3] and around 600 works of art including engravings, maps, paintings, sculptures and watercolors. Some of the artwork includes a landscape of Pernambuco painted by Dutch artist Frans Post (1612-1680); a screen showing the Largo do Machado in Rio de Janeiro by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (1755-1830); a bronze bust of Pedro I by sculptor Marc Ferrez (1788-1850); the only existing color copy of Rerum per Octenium in Brasilia by Gaspar Barleus (1584-1648); the first book in French about Brazil, La Singularité de la France Anthartique, by Franciscan priest André Thévet (1502-1590), among many others.
In a digitizing project completed in conjunction with a partnership between Gale Cengage Learning and the library, most of the 19th- and 20th-century pamphlets in the collection have been digitized. Some 17,000 Portuguese and Brazilian books and pamphlets are available in the digital collection. According to restrictions imposed by the wills of the de Oliveira Limas, none of the materials may leave the premises. The Oliveira Lima Library is located in the underground level of Mullen Library at 620 Michigan Avenue N.E., Washington, DC 20064.
Oliveira was born in Recife, Brazil, on December 25, 1867. His mother was from Recife and his father was from the Portuguese city of Porto. In 1873, the family moved to Lisbon, where Oliveira graduated from the Faculty of Letters (today part of the University of Lisbon) in 1888 with a degree in classical and modern literature.
Oliveira began working as a journalist at the age of 14, when he founded "Correio do Brazil", a monthly journal published in Lisbon. His articles criticized the hold that oligarchs had over the newly founded Brazilian Republic and so gained fame as a republican. He graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon in 1887, and in 1890 began working for the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as a diplomat in Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Japan, and the United States. He also led the first Brazilian diplomatic business mission to Japan in 1901.
He was nominated but not confirmed as ambassador to the United Kingdom. His nomination was subtly opposed by the British after Oliviera said Brazil should remain neutral in World War I. He also made enemies in Brazil after opposing the country's expansionist policies (such as the annexation of the Peruvian state of Acre, which was proposed by José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco). He argued that Brazil expansion should only come through trade.
Oliveira loved to write. A Germanophile, he loved German philosophy and wrote extensively on the topic. He authored three books on Japan, and a biography of João VI (King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1816 to 1822). He cultivated a number of authors as friends, including Gilberto Freyre and a young Machado de Assis.
Fond of books, Oliveira collected the third-largest library in Brazil, smaller only than the National Library of Brazil and the Library of the University of São Paulo. First secretary of the Brazilian legation at the Brazilian embassy in the United States beginning in 1896, he brought his library with him. He donated the 40,000-volume collection to the Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1916 out of a fear that it would not receive adequate care in Brazil. For the next four years, Oliveira also acted as the collection's librarian and curator.
The Olivera Lima Collection library holds books, serials, pamphlets, maps and broadsides, as well as more than 700 manuscripts. It is a unique collection of Portuguese chronicles from the age of exploration; histories of Portuguese religious orders; important works and original documents about the social, cultural, and diplomatic history of 19th-century Portugal and Brazil; and the complete works of a wide range of Portuguese and Brazilian writers. The library also houses the Oliveira Lima Family Papers; 60 volumes of scrapbooks containing Oliveira's writings; and a collection of art, maps, and 19th- and early 20th-century photographs. The Oliveira Lima Collection is considered the finest collection of Luso-Brazilian materials in the U.S. There is no other specialized collection of comparable depth anywhere else in the world -- particularly for the study of Portuguese expansion in the 16th century and for the social and cultural history of Brazil from the arrival of the Portuguese court (1808) to 1930.
From 1923 until his death in 1928, Oliveira served as professor of international law at CUA. In 1924, he was appointed Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Law of Recife.
Oliveira married Flora de Oliveira Lima (née Cavalcanti de Albuquerque). Oliveira died suddenly at his home in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 1928. He was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery. His tombstone does not include his name; rather, it is inscribed with the Portugese phrase "Aqui jaz um amigo dos livros" (Here lies a friend of books).
Wikipedia (translated to English)
Manoel de Oliveira Lima ( Recife , December 25, 1867 - Washington , March 24 , 1928 ) was a writer , critic , diplomat, historian and journalist. He represented Brazil in several countries and was a visiting professor at Harvard University . Founding member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters .
Passionate about books, he collected them throughout his life and set up the third largest collection on Brazil, second only to the National Library of Brazil and to the library of the University of São Paulo . The Oliveira Lima Library , located at the Catholic University of Washington in the United States , has 58,000 books in addition to correspondence exchanged with intellectuals, more than six hundred paintings, and countless scrapbooks with news from newspapers. Part of the collection is still one of the three busts of Dom Pedro I sculpted by Marc Ferrez (uncle of the photographer of the same name ), the only one of the three made in bronze.
Oliveira Lima began acting as a journalist at the age of fourteen in Correio do Brazil, a newspaper he founded in Lisbon.
He graduated from the Superior Course of Letters of Lisbon , which later became the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon in 1887, and in 1890 began to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. He served as a diplomat in Portugal , Belgium , Germany , Japan , Venezuela, England and the United States.
He was in charge of business of the first Brazilian diplomatic mission in Japan . In 1901 he gave an opinion contrary to the Brazilian project of receiving Japanese immigrants . He then wrote to the Foreign Ministry warning about the danger of the Brazilian mingling with "inferior races"
He even got spoken to the Brazilian embassy in London but the Senate did not approve his nomination. Oliveira Lima was disliked by the British government for arguing that the ideal that Brazil remained neutral in World War I and its intellectual proximity to Germany.
It also made enemies within the country, partly because it did not approve of the expansionist attitude of the Republic in situations such as the annexation of Acre by the Baron of Rio Branco .
Oliveira Lima always liked reading and writing. Part of his Germanophile fame comes from the praise he devoted to German philosophical works when he was a literary critic. He was the author of the third Brazilian book on Japan, published in 1903. The biography he wrote about King John VI is considered one of the main works on this historical figure. He was also friends with writers, being intimate with Gilberto Freyre and exchanging letters with Machado de Assis .
In 1916, Oliveira Lima donated his huge library to the Catholic University of America in Washington, and moved there in 1920. It made him the first librarian and organizer of the collection, a function he held until his death when was succeeded by his wife Flora de Oliveira Lima.
In 1924 he became professor of International Law at the Catholic University of America. In the same year he was appointed honorary professor of the Faculty of Law of Recife .
He died in 1928 and was buried in Mount Olivet, Washington. On his tombstone is not his name, but the phrase " Here lies a friend of books ".
Works
Aspects of Brazilian colonial literature, 1896
La Langue Portugaise, La Littérature brésilienne, 1909
Machado de Assis et son oeuvre littéraire, 1909
The Independence movement; Aspects of Brazilian history and culture, 1923
Selected work, 1971
Diplomatic History of Brazil: The Recognition of the Empire (eBook)
The diplomat, writer and critic Oliveira Lima published numerous works of history, among them: Memory on the discovery of Brazil , History of the recognition of the Empire,, In Japan , Secretary of the King , Dom João VI in Brazil . On this last work of history that Oliveira Lima published is important to emphasize its importance for the rearrangement of the Brazilian historiography, since it is considered as being a classic of the national historiography according to the Lima an intellectual that have varied conferences on the formation of Brazilian nationality. The illustrious work "Dom João VI in Brazil" is considered to be one of the great works of the author Oliveira Lima. This assessment is made by many scholars and authors related to significant questions about Brazil. Some authors and writers such as Gilberto Freyre, Octavio Tarquínio de Souza and Wilson Martins have already had the opportunity to write about the reports of Oliveira Lima contained in this work of great prestige for Brazilian historiography. There are very important facts about the international situation of Portugal in 1808, the arrival of the court in Brazil, the formation of the first ministry, and the first steps, regarding intellectual emancipation, about private life with his wife Carlota Joaquina and among other topics debated throughout the work. The last topic "The Queen D. Carlota" is the focus analyzed here on this work. The Queen Carlota Joaquina, Carlota Joaquina de Bourbon, or in this case Carlota Joaquina de Oliveira Lima (I use this term, because of the story from the vision and studies of the intellectual Lima), came to live in Brazil together with her husband Dom João VI, in 1808. The king and the queen that I am referring to were married in 1790. From the date of arrival in Brazil, I was present in the Brazilian imaginary and already witnessed by the Spaniard and Portuguese, a woman with many desires and wishes and also with conflict in the midst of diplomatic political relations. It would be this queen, according to Oliveira Lima, responsible for the defamation of Dom João VI. It was able to increase or generate new complications to the Portuguese monarchy. In the eyes of the author here treated, Oliveira Lima, the greatest desire or one of the greatest wishes of Queen Carlota Joaquina was to take the place of the king, that is, of her husband, Dom João VI. She would not be a woman who had been born to be a princess consort. She is a woman of royalty with masculine features and attitudes that did not fit her skeleton, endowed with a masculine soul. Carlota Joaquina was so terrible that she managed to implant in the ideals of diplomatic politics that her husband had endured as his mother, D. Maria I, and this caused the councilors to rethink authority over the throne of Brazilian lands. She was seen as a "hallucinating" mother and a "impudent" woman. It is important to note that D. Carlota had children and among them he met Don Miguel, considered by her to be the favorite and very docile son. In many of D. Carlota's letters to D. João VI they are written in an ironic way, calling him often a darling of my heart. Some of these letters can be found in the archive of the Imperial Museum in Rio de Janeiro and also in the book "Carlota Joaquina unpublished letters" written by the historian and writer Francisca Azevedo.
Oliveira Lima occupied the 11th chair of the Pernambuco Academy of Letters , and was, after his death, remembered as patron of the 31st chair, in the expansion of the Academy's vacancies.
In 1897, he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters , as founder of the chair 39, which has as patron Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen .
The Oliveira Lima Library (also known as the Ibero American Library) is located at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. It was founded in 1920, when Brazilian diplomat and scholar Manoel de Oliveira Lima and his wife, Flora de Oliveira Lima shipped their private library to the university after obtaining an agreement that the library would remain a separate, autonomous facility and that Manoel would be the first librarian. The initial collection included 45,000 volumes of books primarily focused on colonial Portuguese Brazilian history, literature and culture. Many of the rare books are original sources, on Portuguese philology and etymology, which complement the other volumes in the collection.
After establishing the library and setting it up, it opened in 1923 with Manoel serving as librarian until his death in 1928.Upon his death, Flora took over managing the collection. Under her direction, the collection grew to 58,000 volumes. In addition, it contains around 200,000 pages of correspondence; 6 dozen albums of newspaper clippings[1] of the couple’s various diplomatic posts which included Lisbon, Berlin, Washington, DC, London, Tokyo, Caracas, Brussels and Stockholm;[3] and around 600 works of art including engravings, maps, paintings, sculptures and watercolors. Some of the artwork includes a landscape of Pernambuco painted by Dutch artist Frans Post (1612-1680); a screen showing the Largo do Machado in Rio de Janeiro by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (1755-1830); a bronze bust of Pedro I by sculptor Marc Ferrez (1788-1850); the only existing color copy of Rerum per Octenium in Brasilia by Gaspar Barleus (1584-1648); the first book in French about Brazil, La Singularité de la France Anthartique, by Franciscan priest André Thévet (1502-1590), among many others.
In a digitizing project completed in conjunction with a partnership between Gale Cengage Learning and the library, most of the 19th- and 20th-century pamphlets in the collection have been digitized. Some 17,000 Portuguese and Brazilian books and pamphlets are available in the digital collection. According to restrictions imposed by the wills of the de Oliveira Limas, none of the materials may leave the premises. The Oliveira Lima Library is located in the underground level of Mullen Library at 620 Michigan Avenue N.E., Washington, DC 20064.
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