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Teófilo Braga

Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga
Ponta Delgada 1843 - Lisboa 1924
Portuguese writer, playwright, politician and the leader of the Republican Provisional Government (1910-11) after the abdication of King Manuel II, as well as the second elected President of the First Portuguese Republic (1915)
(Wikipedia)

António Teixeira Lopes
1916

Description

Bronze bust.

Inscription(s)

TEÓFILO
BRAGA

no
..c..n..n..i.
..o..ev
..sc..e..t..

o mvnicipio da
sva terra

Α
24-2-1843

24-2-1943

ao poeta da
visão dos tempos

historiador da
literatvra
portvgvêsa
e
presidente
do 1º governo
da repvblica

Ω
28-2-1924

TEÓFILO
BRAGA

??

the municipality
of his land

Born
24-2-1843

24-2-1943

To the poet of
the vision of times

Historian of the
Portuguese
literature
and
president
of the 1st government
of the republic

Died
28-2-1924

Signature

Teix. Lopes 1916

Annotation

The monument was placed in 1926 in the Jardim da Estrela in Lisbon, and replaced to Ponta Delgada in 1943.

Ponta Delgada - Teófilo Braga

Sculptor

António Teixeira Lopes (Vila Nova de Gaia 1866 - São Mamede de Ribatua, Alijó, 1942), Portuguese sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

João & Rita Freitas, Estatuária Micaelense (Ponta Delgada 2007) (also on-line in three parts at blogspot).
Diário de Notícias, 5 June 2010, Teófilo: monumento retirado.

Locatie (N 37°44'11" - W 25°40'24") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ptac022; Photograph: 20 June 2016
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