Antonio Augusto de Lima: Brazilian journalist, poet, musician, magistrate, jurist, professor and politician. Born in Congonhas de Sabará (now Nova Lima ), in April, 5 1859. He became governor of the state of Minas Gerais, and it was responsible for the transfer of the capital of the state, from Ouro Preto to Belo Horizonte (then "Curral Del Rey"). He was elected for the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1903. In 1906, Augusto de Lima was elected “deputado federal” (house representative) and moved to Rio de Janeiro, the federal district.
He married Vera Monteiro de Barros de Suckow, granddaughter of Hans Willelm von Suckow, Major of the Prussian Army (who fought Napoleon in Waterloo) and patron of Brazil’s horse racing — the first breeder of racing horses in Brazil.
As a politician, Augusto de Lima defended women emancipation and was also an ecologist. A strong devout of Saint Francis of Assisi, he was responsible for the first forest protection law in Brazil, a work defended in a 15 year congressional battle.
Works
- Contemporâneas , poetry (1887)
- Símbolos poetry (1892)
- Poesias (1909)
- Noites de sábado , cronicles (1923)
- São Francisco de Assis , poetry (1930)
- Coletânea de poesias (1880-1934)
- Poetry (1959)
- Tiradentes, poetry
- Antes da Sombra, poetry (not released).
