António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira

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António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira

1879–1922

A Portuguese physician, educator, and public figure whose work linked medicine, child development, and teacher training in the early 20th century. Though he died young in 1922, he is still remembered for helping shape special and educational care in Portugal.

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Algumas lições de psicologia e pedologia

Algumas lições de psicologia e pedologia

by António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira

About the author

Born in Funchal, Madeira, on January 18, 1879, António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira built a career that crossed medicine, education, and public service. Recent historical work on his life highlights how active he was not only in science and medicine, but also in educational reform and the training of future teachers in Lisbon.

He is especially associated with the development of médico-pedagogia in Portugal — work that brought together medical knowledge and education, particularly around childhood development and special education. Studies about his legacy describe him as an important figure in the creation and support of institutions and practices that influenced special education in Portugal.

Costa Ferreira died in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, on July 15, 1922, at just 43 years old. Even so, later researchers continue to point to him as a notable early 20th-century Portuguese thinker and practitioner whose influence reached both the classroom and the clinic.