Augusto de Lima
Politician, Author
1859 – 1934
Who was Augusto de Lima?
Antônio Augusto de Lima was a Brazilian journalist, poet, musician, magistrate, jurist, professor and politician. He was born in Congonhas de Sabará.
De Lima was governor of the state of Minas Gerais, and idealized the transfer of the state's capital from Ouro Preto to Belo Horizonte. In 1903, he became a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and was elected its president in 1928.
In 1906, Augusto de Lima was elected deputado federal and moved to Rio de Janeiro, the federal district. There, he married Vera Monteiro de Barros de Suckow, granddaughter of Hans Wilhelm von Suckow, Major of the Prussian Army and patron of Brazil’s horse racing — the first breeder of race horses in Brazil.
As a politician, Augusto de Lima defended female suffrage and was also an ecologist. He was strongly devoted to Saint Francis of Assisi, and was responsible for the first forest protection law in Brazil, implemented after a fifteen-year battle in congress.
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- Born
- Apr 5, 1859
Brazil - Nationality
- Brazil
- Profession
- Died
- 1934
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on July 23, 2013
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