Pereira de Sousa (Francisco Luís)
Original title: Pereira de Sousa (Francisco Luis)
Biography of Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa (1870–1931), Funchal-born army engineer and Lisbon university professor, regarded as Portugal's leading authority on seismology, notably for his studies of the 1755 earthquake.
He was born in Funchal on 28 September 1870, the son of the distinguished Madeiran writer Francisco Clementino de Sousa. Having enlisted in the army on 3 November 1888, he was commissioned second lieutenant of engineers on 25 October 1894, after studying with great distinction at the former Polytechnic and Army Schools. He was a professor in the 3rd section (natural sciences) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa) and a member of the Mineralogical Society of France and other scientific bodies. He devoted himself especially to geological, mineralogical and seismological studies, and in the last of these he was the foremost authority in our country. His research on the effects of the earthquake of 1755 is truly remarkable, not only from the scientific but also from the historical point of view. Works:
- Subsidios para o estudo dos calcareos do distrito de Lisboa (1897)
- Elementos de geographia physica da Europa (1901)
- Estudo Geologico do polygono de Tancos (1902)
- Idêa geral dos calcareos empregados nas construções de Lisboa (1904)
- Os calcareos do distrito de Leiria (1905)
- Os calcareos mais empregados em Portugal (1908)
- Effeitos do terremoto de 1755 nas construções de Lisboa (1909)
- Alguns trechos do relatorio do engenheiro Rego Lima sobre a sua missão ás minas de Cassinga em 1898 (1911)
- Le Raz de marée du grand tremblement de terre em 1755, en Portugal (Paris, 1911)
- Ideia geral dos effeitos do megasismo de 1755 em Portugal (1914)
- O Megasismo do 1.° de Novembro de 1755 em Portugal–distrito de Faro (1915)
- O Terremoto do 1.° de Novembro de 1755 em Portugal e um estudo demografico–dos distritos de Faro, Beja e Evora (1919).
He died in Lisbon on 25 September 1931.
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The great earthquake struck Portugal and caused sea movements on Madeira's coast.
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Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa was born in Funchal.
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Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa enlisted in the army.
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Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa was commissioned ensign of engineers.
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Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa died in Lisbon.
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Abroad
- Cassinga
Angola. Mining area in Angola, subject of Rego Lima's report.
Mining area in Angola, subject of Rego Lima's report.
- Funchal
Birthplace of Pereira de Sousa.
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 taught, studied its limestones and the 1755 earthquake, 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.
People
People mentioned · 03- Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa1870–1931
Funchal-born engineer officer, professor of natural sciences at the University of Lisbon and geologist-seismologist known for his studies of the 1755 earthquake.
- Francisco Clementino de Sousa1846–1896
Distinguished Madeiran writer and father of the geologist Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa.
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Engineer whose 1898 report on his mission to the Cassinga mines was partly published by Pereira de Sousa in 1911.