Ferreira (Alípio Augusto)
Original title: Ferreira (Alipio Augusto)
Santa Cruz-born teacher, tax official and journalist (1837–1915) who wrote for Madeiran papers, edited O Portuguez in Demerara and died destitute in New York.
He was born in the parish (freguesia) of Santa Cruz (‘Holy Cross’) on 27 December 1837. He studied at the Funchal lyceum (state secondary school) and became a primary-school teacher, later holding the post of revenue clerk (escrivão de fazenda) in several municipalities of this district. He contributed extensively, in prose and verse, to various Madeiran newspapers and was principal editor of A Pátria. According to Inocêncio Francisco da Silva, he wrote the novellas Um Sacrilegio and Romance em seis capítulos, which he had ready for printing but which were never published in book form; only a few extracts appeared in various newspapers. He lived for many years in Demerara, where he was editor of the newspaper O Portuguez. He became a merchant but had little success in his business dealings, and he died in New York, on a hospital cot, on 3 August 1915, destitute and in the most complete obscurity.
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Years mentioned · 02Place
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Abroad
- Demerara
Guyana. Where he lived many years and edited O Portuguez.
Demerara, in British Guiana, received mass Madeiran emigration from about 1840, including emigrants after 1846, and was the main export market for Madeiran onions. The Elucidário also records it as the source of the dwarf banana, of entire-leaved sweet potatoes (1845) and of the ant Iridomyrmex humilis, and as the place where Alípio Augusto Ferreira edited O Portuguez.
- Funchal
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.
- New York
United States of America. Where he died in poverty.
Nova Iorque (New York) is the city where books by John Dix and a second edition of Colvocoress's book were published, and where Matias Figueira da Silva contributed to medical journals. Moisés Gonçalves qualified at a dental school there, and Alípio Augusto Ferreira died there in poverty.
- Santa Cruz
His birthplace.
Santa Cruz is a parish and one of Madeira's oldest settlements, named after a cross Zarco had raised there at the discovery. The Elucidário covers its early ecclesiastical history, collegiate church, chapels, noble settlers and localities.
People
People mentioned · 02- Alípio Augusto Ferreira1837–1915
Madeiran journalist and novelist, editor of A Pátria and later of O Portuguez in Demerara.
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Portuguese bibliographer cited for Ferreira's unpublished novels.