Octávio Barbosa

Who is Octávio Barbosa?

Octávio Barbosa was a Brazilian geologist.

Barbosa was born in Ituverava, where he lived with his parents on a farm until 13 years old. He learned to read at the age of five, and had his secondary education at schools in Ribeirão Preto. Octávio Barbosa graduated from the University of Ouro Preto in civil engineering and Mining. He worked in ancient Geological and Mineralogical Survey of Brazil, in the early 1930s, which in 1936 renamed itself the National Department of Mineral Production DNPM.

He married Beatriz de Lima Viana, on April 19, 1933 in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. His second wife, Vera Rita de Castro Dias, geographer, formed by the USP, collaborated on many of the geomorphological works. He has a son and four grandchildren. From his first marriage, until August 1954, had five children, 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

At 1932, he joined the Polytechnic School of São Paulo, where he taught for 16 years. With 48 years went to work for Prospec in Petropolis, where he developed consulting activities. In 1977, he joined the CPRM, currently Geological Survey of Brazil.

It was a professional versatility. He has published over 200 scientific papers and trained hundreds of engineers and geologists. Octávio Barbosa attended the first board of Brazilian Geological Society, serving as vice president alongside Luciano Jacques de Moraes. He made many works of field geology and mineral prospecting and had appreciation for the indigenous terms, which you also were useful in physiographic descriptions and interpretations in Brazil.