Pinto Coelho (Frederico)
Biographical entry on Frederico Pinto Coelho (1851–1916), a Funchal-born civil servant and journalist, author of the 1881 pamphlet Sudario Negro attacking Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto.
He was the son of Joaquim Pinto Coelho and Dona Maria Carlota de Ornelas Linhares Pinto Coelho, and was born in Funchal on 28 May 1851.
He was a copying clerk at the Municipal Administration (Administração do Concelho, the government's local civil office) of Funchal and secretary of the Municipal Administration of Évora. After retiring from the latter post he returned to Madeira, where for some time he served as municipal administrator (administrador do concelho, the government's representative) of the municipality (concelho) of Câmara de Lobos. He was an editor of and contributor to various Madeiran newspapers, and in 1881 he published in Funchal a 40-page pamphlet entitled Sudario Negro, a diatribe against the prelate Dom Manuel Agostinho Barreto. Father António Aires Pacheco replied to it with the pamphlet O Sudario Negro no banco dos réus. He died in Funchal on 2 January 1916.
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Abroad
- Câmara de Lobos
He was for a time administrator of this municipality.
Câmara de Lobos is a municipality of Madeira whose seat was historically a 'lugar' rather than a vila. The Elucidário quotes Gaspar Frutuoso's description of it and outlines the creation of the concelho in 1835 and later changes to its parishes.
- Évora
Portugal. He served as secretary of the municipal administration of Évora until retiring.
Évora is a city in mainland Portugal with an archiepiscopal cathedral and a university, connected with several Madeiran clergy. It was the birthplace of Bishop D. Estevão Brioso and of D. Martinho de Portugal. The 4th Count of Vimioso died in a convent there.
- Funchal
Birthplace and place of death of Pinto Coelho, where he worked and published.
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.
People
People mentioned · 05- Frederico Pinto Coelho1851–1916
Funchal-born clerk, municipal administrator of Câmara de Lobos and journalist who wrote the pamphlet Sudario Negro (1881).
- António Aires Pachecob. 1854
Priest who replied to Sudario Negro with the pamphlet O Sudario Negro no banco dos réus.
- D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto1835–1911
Bishop of Funchal attacked in Pinto Coelho's pamphlet Sudario Negro (1881).
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Father of Frederico Pinto Coelho.
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Mother of Frederico Pinto Coelho.