Teófilo Braga

Teófilo Braga was born in Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, on 24 February 1843, the son of a former Miguelite officer; he lost his mother early and, to escape a harsh stepmother, entered a newspaper's printing works as an apprentice, and the paper published his first verse collection in 1859. A doctor of law of Coimbra, professor of literature in Lisbon from 1872, a disciple of Comte, he was one of the figures of the Republican Party. He presided over the provisional government after the revolution of 5 October 1910, was President of the Republic in 1915 and died in Lisbon on 28 January 1924.

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• TaleContos Tradicionais do Povo PortuguêsTeófilo Braga · 1883not translated into EnglishLiterature