Azevedo (Carlos Olavo Correia de)
Funchal-born law graduate elected deputy for Madeira in 1911 and 1915, who served with the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in France and was taken prisoner in 1918.
He was elected deputy for Madeira to the Constituent Cortes (Portuguese parliament) on 28 May 1911. He was again chosen as our representative in the Cortes, being elected on 13 June 1915.
He is a bachelor (bacharel, university graduate) in law and was born in Funchal on 7 July 1880. He was serving as secretary-general of the Civil Government of Lisbon when he was mobilised to join the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps; he went to France and was taken prisoner by the Germans in the battle of 9 April 1918.
He is a descendant of Domingos Olavo Correia de Azevedo, who was Civil Governor of this district in 1841, and the brother of Captain Américo Olavo de Azevedo, whom we have already discussed in this Elucidário. Works: Jornal de um prisioneiro de guerra na Alemanha, Lisbon, 1919, 204 pp.
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Time
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Domingos Olavo Correia de Azevedo was appointed Administrador Geral (civil governor) of Madeira by decree of 26 March 1841 and took office on 2 April.
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Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo was born in Funchal.
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Madeira elected its deputies to the Constituent Assembly of the Republic, among them Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo.
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A general election of deputies and senators was held for Madeira; Carlos Olavo was re-elected deputy and Vasco Gonçalves Marques and Daniel Simões Soares were elected senators.
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He was taken prisoner by the Germans in the great battle of that day.
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Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo's book on captivity in Germany was published in Lisbon.
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Abroad
- France
Where he served with the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps.
France is a country where several Madeirans fought and died in the First World War, including Gabriel Rocha de Gouveia and João Paulo da Veiga Pestana. It was also a place of study, of exile and of refuge for Madeirans. It was the origin of the expedition behind the Saque dos Franceses and the intended destination of the fugitives in the Machim legend.
- Funchal
Birthplace of Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Germany
Where he was held as a prisoner of war.
Germany, home of embroidery export houses from about 1890 and a market for Madeira embroidery. It is also recorded as the country where Dr João António Monteiro studied mineralogy, where Carlos Olavo was held as a prisoner of war and where the 2nd count of Tôrre Bela died.
- Lisbon
Portugal. Where he served as secretary-general of the civil government and published his book.
The Portuguese capital, seat of the Relação court and of the Misericórdia whose privileges and statutes were extended to Funchal. Henrique Franco de Sousa studied at its Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Luiz José Baiardo moved there in 1821.
People
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Funchal-born law graduate, deputy for Madeira (1911, 1915) and prisoner of war in Germany after the battle of 9 April 1918.
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Army captain and brother of Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo, with his own entry in the Elucidário.
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Civil governor of the Funchal district in 1841 and an ancestor of Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo.