Jaime Zuzarte Cortesão (29 April 1884 – 14 August 1960) was a Portuguese medical doctor, politician, historian and writer.
He was born in Ançã near Cantanhede. Later he studied at the
University of Porto for his medical studies. In 1919, he was director of the
National Library
A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant wo ...
in Lisbon. In 1921, he wrote several articles in the review ''
Atlantida'' and the periodical ''Seara Nova''. In 1919, he was officer of the
Order of St. Jacob of the Sword. As he was a democrat and a republican, he was one of the first leaders of counter-rebellion in Porto in 1927 against the Authoritarian
National dictatorship (later
Estado Novo) He was sent into exile into France and in 1940 into Brazil. Later, he returned to Portugal in 1957 where he died in 1960. A memorial to him is located in the Cemiterio de Prazeros in Lisbon.
He was posthumously awarded the Grand Officer of the Order of Freedom and the Grand Cross of the
Order of Prince Henry the Navigator.
Works
Some of the work he did as a historian were related to Portuguese discoveries in the New World. He suggested that the
Bianco world map depicted part of the coast of
Brazil
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before 1448.This was later refuted by
Abel Fontoura da Costa
Abel Fontoura da Costa (9 December 1869 – 7 December 1940) was a Portuguese colonial administrator, a military officer, a politician and a scientist.[Santiago
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. the largest island of the
Cape Verde archipelago.
List of works
:Poetry:
* 1910: ''A Morte da águia''
* 1923: ''Divina voluptuosidade''
* 1940: ''Missa da meia-noite''
:Dramas:
* 1916: ''O Infante de Sagres'' (''Knight of Sagres'')
* 1921: ''Adão e Eva'' (''Adam and Eve'')
:Non-fiction:
* 1941: ''O carácter lusitano do descobrimento do Brasil'' (''The Lusitanian Character on the Discovery of Brazil'')
* 1943: ''A carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha'' (''Map by Pero Vaz de Caminha'')
* 1949: ''Eça de Queiroz e a questão social'' (''Eça Queiroz and the Social Question'')
* 1960/1962: ''Os descobrimentos portugueses'' (''Portuguese Discoveries'') - 2 volumes
References
External links
Jaime Cortesãoat the Portal of Former Illustrious Students at the University of Porto
Jaime Cortesão at Infopedia
Cátedra Jaime Cortesão - University of São Paulo
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1884 births
1960 deaths
20th-century Portuguese politicians
Portuguese writers
20th-century Portuguese historians