Azevedo (Maximiliano Eugénio de)
Original title: Azevedo (Maximiliano Eugenio de)
Biography of Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo (1850–1911), Funchal-born artillery officer, journalist, theatre critic, playwright and author, who ended his career as colonel and royal commissioner of the Teatro Normal in Lisbon.
He was born in Funchal on 16 February 1850, the son of António Pedro de Azevedo and Dona Teresa Rosa Bernes de Azevedo. He attended the Funchal lyceum (state secondary school) and then the Polytechnic School and the Army School, completing the artillery course in 1875. He served as second lieutenant in Santarém and then in the Azores, returning to Lisbon in 1881, which he did not leave again except for the journeys he made to various foreign countries in 1889, 1893 and 1900.
He was on the editorial staff of the Jornal da Noite from 1882 to 1884, chiefly in charge of the theatre criticism section, and contributed to the Discussão, Occidente, Jornal do Domingo, Atlantico, Diário Manhã, Revista de Sciencias Militares, Contemporâneo, Illustração de Portugal e Brazil, etc. For more than 10 years he assisted Latino Coelho in preparing the materials for the Historia politica e militar de Portugal nos fins do seculo XVIII e princípios do seculo XIX, and he wrote and translated many plays, whose titles are listed in the Diccionario Bibliographico of Inocêncio Francisco da Silva, continued by Brito Aranha. He also wrote Tiro das boccas de fogo (Lisbon, 1899) and Marchas e Estacionamentos (Lisbon, 1892), both in collaboration with Captain Artur Perdigão, and two books of short stories entitled Historias das Ilhas (Lisbon 1899) and Em Campanha e no Quartel (Lisbon, 1900).
Towards the end of his life Maximiliano de Azevedo managed the Teatro Normal as royal commissioner. Few could rival him in matters of stagecraft or in deep knowledge of our theatrical, literary and artistic history.
He died in a nursing home in Lisbon on 4 December 1911, being at the time colonel commanding the 1st Artillery Regiment.
Maximiliano de Azevedo’s godfather was Prince Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg, who was in Madeira at the time of his baptism.
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Time
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Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo was born in Funchal.
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Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo completed the artillery course.
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Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo retired from the Funchal lyceum and moved to Lisbon.
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Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo was an editor and theatre critic of the Jornal da Noite.
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Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo died in Lisbon as colonel commanding Artillery Regiment no. 1.
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Abroad
- Azores
Portugal. Where he later served.
The Azores, an Atlantic archipelago that shares plant species with Madeira. The Elucidário records settlement there by Madeiran families such as the Bettencourts, the 1801 ban on Azorean wines in Madeira, and imports of Azorean tobacco. It also notes that Azorean farmers were brought to Madeira to teach maize-growing methods.
- Funchal
Birthplace of Azevedo, where he attended the lyceum.
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.
- Lisbon
Portugal. Where he lived from 1881 and died.
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.
- Santarém
Portugal. Where he served as second lieutenant.
Santarém is a town in Portugal. It was the birthplace of Bishop D. Jerónimo Fernando, D. Fr. Gaspar do Casal and Bishop D. Fernando de Távora, and the home of Zargo's maternal grandfather. Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo served there as a second lieutenant, and D. João Frederico da Câmara Leme was transferred to its civil governorship but declined it.
People
People mentioned · 08- Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo1850–1911
Funchal-born artillery officer, theatre critic, playwright and author who managed the Teatro Normal in Lisbon; subject of this entry.
- António Pedro de Azevedo1814–1889
Father of Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo.
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Army captain who co-wrote Azevedo's military manuals of 1892 and 1899.
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Continuator of Inocêncio da Silva's Diccionario Bibliographico.
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Compiler of the Diccionario Bibliographico, which lists Azevedo's plays.
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Portuguese historian whom Azevedo assisted for over ten years in preparing a political and military history of Portugal.
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Duke of Leuchtenberg, in Madeira in 1850, who stood godfather to Azevedo at his baptism.
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Mother of Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo.