Cunha (Alexandre Luís da)
Original title: Cunha (Alexandre Luiz da)
Liberal teacher and journalist who ran several Funchal newspapers, was jailed for a press offence in 1828, went into exile and later taught languages at the lyceum.
He was a teacher at the Lancasterian School (Escola Lancasteriana) and owner and editor of the periodicals O Defensor da Liberdade, O Defensor and Correio da Madeira. By a sentence of 26 February 1828 he served thirty days in prison for abuse of the freedom of the press. Having left that year for the United States, he went on from there to Brazil, returning to Madeira only after constitutional government had been restored. On 28 September 1835 he was appointed teacher of French and English in Funchal, and by decree of 4 September 1838 he took up the same post at the lyceum (state secondary school). He died in the Civil Hospital (Hospital Civil) on 14 October 1852, at the age of 49. Works: Os Estados Unidos da America Septentrional em 1830 e 1831, Rio de Janeiro, 1832.
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Alexandre Luiz da Cunha was sentenced to thirty days' prison for abuse of press freedom.
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Alexandre Luiz da Cunha was appointed professor of French and English in Funchal.
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Alexandre Luiz da Cunha was appointed by decree to a professorship at the Funchal lyceum.
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Alexandre Luiz da Cunha died at the Hospital Civil in Funchal, aged 49.
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Abroad
- Brazil
Where he stayed before returning to Madeira.
Brazil is recorded in the Elucidário as a chief destination of Madeiran emigrants, including several clergy and writers. It was also a market for Madeira wine and brandy and a maker of wickerwork from Madeiran osiers. It was linked to Madeira by the 1874 telegraph cable and is the native country of the araçá.
- Civil Hospital
Funchal. Where he died.
The Hospital Civil is a hospital in Funchal. Alexandre Luiz da Cunha died there, and the passenger who introduced smallpox in 1872 was admitted there.
- Funchal
Where he taught languages.
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.
- United States of America
Where he went in 1828 and about which he wrote a book.
The United States of America was a destination of Madeiran emigration from 1753 and a major source of remittances, the largest importer of Madeira embroidery by 1923, and the largest source of donated provisions during the 1846–47 famine. Several Madeirans lived there in exile, including Dr João Francisco de Oliveira and Dr Lourenço José Moniz, and some fleeing freemasons emigrated there in 1792. It was also João Howard March's country of birth, and Marítimo was invited to visit.
People
People mentioned · 01- Alexandre Luiz da Cunhad. 1852
Madeiran teacher and newspaper editor, imprisoned for a press offence in 1828, later professor of French and English in Funchal; died 1852.