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António Lobo de Almada Negreiros (13 August 1868 in
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, Aljustrel – 12 June 1939 in
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) was an illustrious journalist and
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writer, essayist and poet. He lived in
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, in
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, where he was the Administrator of the Council and, already a widower, he established in Paris, where he participated in the organization of the
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, etc. He was a son of Pedro de Almada Pereira and wife Margarida Francisca Camacho de Negreiros or Lobo Bravo de Negreiros. He married in the
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,
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, at the Parrish of Conceição, on 30 April 1892 Elvira Freire Sobral (
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São Tomé Island São Tomé Island, at , is the largest island of São Tomé and Príncipe and is home in May 2018 to about 193,380 or 96% of the nation's population. The island is divided into six districts of São Tomé and Príncipe, districts. It is located ...
,
Mé-Zóchi District Mé-Zóchi is a district of São Tomé and Príncipe, on São Tomé Island. Its area is . With 44,752 residents (2012) rising to 50,800 in 2018, it is the second most populous district of the country.Trindade, Roça Saudade, on 23 June 1874
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, 29 December 1896), oldest child and natural daughter recognized and raised by her father
José António Freire Sobral José António Freire Sobral (10 June 1840 in Sobral de Monte Agraço, São Quintino – 19 April 1905 in Lisbon), was a Portuguese farmer and a large exporter of coffee, cocoa and woods who made his fortune in São Tomé Island in Portuguese S ...
by Leopoldina Amélia de Azevedo, who died in childbirth of and with her daughter. She studied in
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, at the Colégio das Religiosas Ursulinas, where ''she won the fame of a skilled drawer''. Her half-brother Joaquim Freire Sobral was also an artist and a painter. They had, beside a daughter, two sons António (b. 1895) and José Sobral de Almada Negreiros.


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* ''Fotobiografias do Século XX'', Photobiography of Almada Negreiros, Círculo de Leitores. {{DEFAULTSORT:Almada Negreiros, Antonio Lobo De 1868 births 1939 deaths People from Aljustrel Portuguese republicans Portuguese journalists Male journalists Portuguese poets Portuguese male poets São Tomé and Príncipe journalists Portuguese expatriates in São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe poets 19th-century Portuguese writers 19th-century male writers Portuguese emigrants to France