Sérgio Buarque de Holanda

Who was Sérgio Buarque de Holanda?

Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was an important Brazilian writer, journalist, historian and member of the Academia Paulista de Letras .

In 1921, he moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro. He participated in the Week of Modern Art of 1922, in São Paulo, being nominated by Mário de Andrade and Oswaldo de Andrade, the representative of the Klaxon magazine in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1925, he earned the degree of bachelor of law from the Universidade do Brasil.

In 1926, he moved to Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, in Espírito Santo, after being invited by the director of the newspaper O Progresso. In the same year, he founded with Prudente de Morais Neto, the magazine Estética.

He returned to Rio de Janeiro in 1927 and started to work as a columnist of the Jornal do Brasil and as an employee of the United Press Agency.

In 1929 he traveled to Europe as a correspondent of the Diários Associados and settled in Berlin, where he met Friedrich Meinecke.

He collaborated, in 1930, in the "Brasilianische Rundschau" magazine of the Conselho do Comércio Brasileiro de Hamburgo.