Johann Julius Gottfried Ludwig Frank or Julius Frank (1808–1841) was a professor of history,

geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, an ...

and philosophy from

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, Germany. He taught at the Largo de São Francisco's Law School in

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(today's Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo)., Brazil. He was an advocator of a liberal philosophy and founded the Students League in Brazil (

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). Frank was a member of the secret association "Burschenschaft Paulista", also known as the ''Bucha'', founded in 1831 and intended to help the disadvantaged through a network of students and former students from Largo de São Francisco's Law School. Because Frank was a

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, he could not be buried in Catholic ground, which was a problem because

only had Catholic graveyards by the time of his death. São Francisco's students then buried him inside the Law School, and his grave is still there nowadays, although his bones were removed a couple of decades ago.

Work

* ''Resumo de História Universal'' (1839)

References

1808 births 1841 deaths 19th-century German philosophers {{germany-academic-bio-stub