José Murilo de Carvalho (8 September 1939 – 13 August 2023) was a Brazilian historian. He obtained his PhD in political science from

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, defending a thesis on the

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. He was professor emeritus at the

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and also taught at the

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. He was a visiting professor and researcher at the universities of Oxford, Leiden, Stanford, California (Irvine), London, Notre Dame, at the

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in Princeton, New Jersey, and at the Ortega y Gasset Foundation in Madrid. Carvalho published and organized 19 books and more than 100 magazine articles. He was a member of the

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and the

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, where he was the sixth occupant of Chair 5. He was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters on 11 March 2004, in succession to

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and was received on 10 September 2004 by the academic

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. José Murilo de Carvalho died of

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in Rio de Janeiro, on 13 August 2023, at the age of 83.

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