Miguel Augusto Bombarda (6 March 1851 – 3 October 1910) was a Portuguese physician, psychiatrist, and politician. He is perhaps most widely remembered as one of the major conspirators of the

5 October 1910 revolution The 5 October 1910 revolution was the overthrow of the centuries-old Portuguese monarchy and its replacement by the First Portuguese Republic. It was the result of a ''coup d'état'' organized by the Portuguese Republican Party. By 1910, the K ...

, although he was shot and killed the day before the coup took place by one of his patients, Aparício Rebelo dos Santos.

Selected publications

*''Contribuição para o estudo dos microcephalus'' (1894) *''Lições sobre a epilepsia e as pseudo-epilepsies'' (1896) *''Estudos Biológicos. A Consciência e o Livre Arbítrio'' (1898) *''A sciencia e o Jesuitismo: replica a um padre sabio'' (1900)

Distinctions

National orders

PRT Order of Saint James of the Sword - Grand Cross BAR

Grand Cross of the

Order of Saint James of the Sword The Military Order of Saint James of the Sword ( pt, Ordem Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada) is a Portuguese order of chivalry. Its full name is the Ancient, Most Noble and Enlightened Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, of the Scientifi ...

(2 May 1906)

References

1851 births 1910 deaths Assassinated Portuguese politicians Deaths by firearm in Portugal Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint James of the Sword Male murder victims People from Lisbon Portuguese psychiatrists Portuguese Republican Party politicians {{Portugal-bio-stub