Luís Morton Barreto Murat was a Brazilian journalist, poet, philosopher and politician. He was born in

Itaguaí Itaguaí () is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro and contains several important iron ore loading ports of the world including Ilha Guaiba. Its population was 134,819 in 2020 and its area is 273 km2. The city wa ...

on 4 May 1861 and died in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

on 3 July 1929. He was a founding member of the

Academia Brasileira The Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL) ( English: ''Brazilian Academy of Letters'') is a Brazilian literary non-profit society established at the end of the 19th century. The first president, Machado de Assis, declared its foundation on Tue ...

and was the first occupant of Chair 1. He was succeeded in the position by

Afonso d'E. Taunay Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay (1876 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina, Brazil – 1958 in São Paulo (city), São Paulo, São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil) was a Brazilian writer, politician and noble. Biography Af ...

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