Emanuel Oliveira de Araújo (24 December 1942 – 15 July 2000) was a Brazilian historian and editor.
Life and career
Araújo was born in
Santo Amaro, Bahia
Santo Amaro, also known as Santo Amaro da Purificação (), is a municipality in the state of Bahia in Brazil. The population is 60,131 (2020 est.) in an area of . It is located in the metropolitan area of Salvador. Santo Amaro is located approxima ...
.
["Emanuel Oliveira de Araújo, Professor Emérito da Universidade de Brasília"]
''O Explorador'', 6 March 2013, retrieved 3 September 2021 . He taught history at the
University of Brasília
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from 1968 to 1971, when he was removed for political reasons, and again from 1989 to his death in
Brasília
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in 2000. In 1995 he was promoted to full professor; after his death, his colleagues successfully petitioned for him to be named
professor emeritus
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[Amado Luiz Cervo]
"Emanuel Oliveira de Araújo, Professor Emérito da Universidade de Brasília, post mortem"
University of Brasília, 6 December 2002, archived fro
the original
on 28 March 2009 .
At the University of Brasília, he played an important role in the teaching of
ancient history
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, assisted by knowledge of all the major languages of the ancient world:
Latin
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,
Hebrew
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,
Ancient Greek
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, and
Old Egyptian
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. He also researched and taught the colonial history of Brazil.
Araújo also worked as an editor, including at the
Fundação Getulio Vargas
Fundação Getulio Vargas (''Getulio Vargas Foundation'', often abbreviated as FGV) is a Brazilian higher education institution and think tank founded on December 20, 1944.
FGV is considered by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the ...
, the
National Archives
National archives are the archives of a country. The concept evolved in various nations at the dawn of modernity based on the impact of nationalism upon bureaucratic processes of paperwork retention.
Conceptual development
From the Middle Ages i ...
, and . He was a co-editor of the ' and the ''Enciclopédia Ilustrada do Brasil'' and published collections of documents. His ''A construção do livro – Princípios da técnica de editoração'' ("Construction of the Book: Principles of Editorial Technique"), published in 1986, was influential, and he was head of the University of Brasília Press in 1992 and 1993 and then served on its editorial board until his death.
Selected publications
* (1970) ''O êxodo hebreu: raizes histórico-sociais da unidade judaica''
* (1986) ''A construção do livro: princípios da técnica de editoração''
* (1993) ''O Teatro dos Vícios: transgressão e transigência na sociedade urbana colonial''
* (2000) ''Escrito para a Eternidade: a literatura no Egito Faraônico''
References
External links
Works by Emanuel Araújoin the
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The (; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including bo ...
1942 births
2000 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Brasília
Brazilian male writers
Brazilian editors
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