Aleixo Clemente Messias Gomes (

Panjim Panaji (; also known as Panjim) is the capital of the Indian state of Goa and the headquarters of North Goa district. Previously, it was the territorial capital of the former Portuguese India. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi river estuary ...

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

, 11 January 1873 -

, 27 June 1957), better known as Prof. Messias Gomes, was a secondary school teacher, writer and Portuguese-Goan

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

, author of several works on historical themes and founder of the daily

O Heraldo ''O Heraldo'' is a century-old broadsheet English-language daily newspaper published from Panjim, the state-capital of the Indian state of Goa. History ''O Heraldo'' was established as the first daily Portuguese newspaper on 21 May 1900 by Al ...

(which appeared on 22 January 1900), the first daily to be published in

Portuguese India The State of India ( pt, Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (''Estado Português da Índia'', EPI) or simply Portuguese India (), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a se ...

Works

* ''O reino de Chandrapur: Uma investigação archeologica'', Bastorá, Tipografia Rangel, 1896.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gomes, Aleixo Clemente Messias 19th-century Portuguese writers 19th-century Indian male writers 20th-century Portuguese writers Journalists from Goa 1873 births 1957 deaths People from Panaji 20th-century Indian journalists 19th-century Indian journalists