Bernardino José de Souza
Bernardino José de Souza (8 February 1884 – 11 January 1949) was a Brazilian historian, geographer, university professor and civil servant.[1]
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Biography
Bernardino José de Souza was born at Engenho Murta, a property located in Vila Cristina, now the municipality of Cristinápolis, the son of Otávio de Souza Leite and Filomena Maciel de Faria, mill owners from Sergipe and the great-grandson of the 2nd Baron of Abadia.
After his initial studies in Sergipe, he moved to Salvador, the capital of Bahia, where he enrolled at the Carneiro Ribeiro Gymnasium. He then entered the law course in 1900 at the Free Faculty of Law of Bahia, now the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Bahia, at the age of 16, and graduated in 1904.
He was a professor of Public International Law at the Bahia Law School from 1906 to 1937. He also taught secondary education in Bahia, having been a professor of Geography and Universal and Brazilian History at the Carneiro Ribeiro Gymnasium and, from 1915, of Universal History at the Bahia State Gymnasium.
He held various public positions, such as Director of the Free Faculty of Law of Bahia, State Secretary of Justice during Artur Neiva's intervention in the State of Bahia, and Minister of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), having been President of the TCU between 1946 and 1947.[2]
He was also a member and perpetual secretary of the Historical and Geographical Institute of Bahia (IHGB) and a member of the Academy of Letters of Bahia, where he was the founder of chair number 14.
Works
- Por mares e terras (Leituras geograficas) (1913)
- Nomenclatura geographica peculiar ao Brazil (1917)
- Joanna Angelica, a primeira heroina da independencia do Brasil (1922)
- A Bahia (1928)
- Dicionário da Terra e da Gente do Brasil (1939; 1961)
- O Pau Brasil na História Nacional (1939; 1978)
- Luiz Barbalho (1601-1644) (1940)
- O ciclo do carro de bois no Brasil (1958)
Notes
- ↑ "Min Bernardino José de Souza (1937-1949)," Museu do Tribunal de Contas da União. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ↑ "Galeria de Presidentes," Tribunal de Contas da União. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
