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Teófilo Braga
1843–1924
A leading voice in Portuguese letters and republican politics, he moved easily between scholarship and public life. Best known outside Portugal for a brief presidency in 1915, he also spent decades writing about literature, folklore, and national culture.
5 Audiobooks
Viriatho: Narrativa epo-historica
by Teófilo Braga
Contos Phantasticos segunda edição correcta e ampliada
by Teófilo Braga
O cancioneiro portuguez da Vaticana
by Teófilo Braga
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About the author
Born in Ponta Delgada in the Azores in 1843, Teófilo Braga became one of Portugal’s most prolific literary and intellectual figures. He studied at the University of Coimbra and later taught modern literature in Lisbon, building a reputation as a poet, critic, essayist, and historian of Portuguese literature.
His public life was just as notable. A committed republican, he emerged as an important figure after the fall of the monarchy, led the Provisional Government of the new republic, and later served briefly as President of Portugal in 1915.
Even so, his lasting importance comes from the sheer range of his writing. Braga worked across poetry, criticism, folklore, and cultural history, and he is often remembered as someone who tried to give Portuguese literature a broad, organized historical story of its own.