João Lobo Antunes (; 4 June 1944 – 27 October 2016) was a Portuguese

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Life and career

João Lobo Antunes was born in

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as the second of six sons of João Alfredo de Figueiredo Lobo Antunes (born 1915), prominent

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and

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, close collaborator of Egas Moniz, Nobel prize of physiology, and wife Margarida da Beira Cardoso de Melo Machado, daughter of Joaquim José Machado, 70th, 82nd and 91st

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and 110th Governor of

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, and wife Mariana Cardoso de Melo. His great-grandfather in male line was an illegitimate son of Bernardo António de Brito Antunes, 1st Viscount of Nazaré. He is the brother of

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and Manuel Lobo Antunes. He has a

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by the

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(1968). He then went to the United States, and worked in the Department of

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of the

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and taught at the

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. In 1983 he returned to Portugal, to get a PhD from the

. A year later he was Professor in Neurosurgery at the

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. In 1990, he was elected vice-president of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies; in 1999 he was elected the President of the

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an Neurosurgery Society. In 1996, he was elected President of the Scientific Council of the

. In the same year, he received the prestigious Pessoa Award. He is the author of more than 150 scientific articles and wrote 4 books: "A way to be" (''Um Modo de Ser''), "In a happy city" (''Numa cidade feliz''), "NY Memories and other essays" (''Memória de Nova Iorque e outros ensaios'') and "About the hand and other essays" (''Sobre a mão e outros ensaios''). His research focused in the study of the

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and the hypophysis. In 1982/83 he was the first

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to implant an electronic device in the eye of a blind man. He was Professor of Neurosurgery in the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Director of the Department of Neurosurgery of the Saint Mary

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(''Hospital de Santa Maria'') in Lisbon and was the President of the Portuguese Academy of Medicine. He died on 27 October 2016, in Lisbon, from

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, at the age of 72.

Marriages and children

He married firstly and divorced Ana Maria Plantier Couvreur de Oliveira (born 11 July 1944), daughter of Guilherme Couvreur de Oliveira (27 October 1914 - ?) and wife Maria do Carmo da Fonseca Plantier (born 1920), both of French descent, married secondly to Luís Vicente de Castro Guimarães, representative of the title of

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of Castro Guimarães with

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(born Lisbon, 8 November 1932 and himself divorced from Maria Enrica Mandillo with three daughters), with one daughter, by whom he has three daughters: Margarida Lobo Antunes on 31 August 1970 (wife of Frederico de Matos e Noronha and mother of João (born 8 August 1996), twins Madalena and Pedro (born 13 February 1999) and Margarida (born 8 September 2006); Maria João Lobo Antunes in 1974 (married); and Paula Lobo Antunes in New York City, 20 January 1976, an

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with a degree in

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(married on 20 September 2003 and divorced Oliver Burns). He married secondly in

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on 6 May 1983 and divorced Maria do Espírito Santo Silva Salgado (born Lisbon, Lapa, 8 June 1943), daughter of João Carlos Roma Machado Cardoso Salgado (1916 - ?),

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and 954th Associate of the Second Tauromachic Club, and wife, married in Cascais, Maria da Conceição Cohen do Espírito Santo Silva (Lisbon, São Mamede, 21 December 1920 - Cascais, 28 December 2010), sister of

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and widow married in Cascais on 6 August 1965 of João Maria Coelho e Campos Poppe (Lisbon, Lapa, 11 June 1943 - Lisbon, 17 June 1982), with four children, by whom he has one daughter: Madalena Sofia Salgado Lobo Antunes (born Cascais, 30 October 1984). He married thirdly on 28 December 2002 Maria do Céu Lourinho Soares Machado (born Lisbon, Santos-o-Velho, 1 October 1949), daughter of Carlos Augusto Soares Machado ( Sá da Bandeira,

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, 27 November 1920 - Spain, 25 August 1984) and wife Maria da Conceição Cordeiro Lourinho (born Portalegre, São Lourenço) and sister of

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José Carlos Lourinho Soares Machado, without issue.

References

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