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Hypacio de Brion
1858–1926
A Portuguese naval officer who also wrote about empire and history, he is best remembered for A India Portugueza, a 1908 lecture-based work on Portuguese India. His surviving record suggests a life that moved between maritime service, public affairs, and historical writing.
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A India Portugueza Conferencia feita em 16 de março de 1908
by Hypacio de Brion
About the author
Born in 1858 and deceased in 1926, Hypacio de Brion appears in library and archival records as a Portuguese writer and naval man. The strongest confirmed detail about his career is that he published A India Portugueza, a short work issued in 1908 and presented as a conference delivered on March 16 of that year at the Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa.
That book places him clearly in the world of Portuguese maritime and imperial history. Contemporary editions identify him as a Capitão de Fragata—roughly a commander in the navy—which helps explain the practical, observational angle of his writing on Portuguese India.
Some archival and memorial sources also describe Hipácio Frederico de Brion as a Portuguese navy officer and politician. Because the available online record is fairly sparse, it is safest to remember him as a late 19th- and early 20th-century Portuguese naval officer whose name remains attached above all to A India Portugueza and its historical view of Portugal's presence in India.