Coimbra Academic Philanthropic Society
Original title: Sociedade Filantrópica Académica de Coimbra
Charitable student society at Coimbra helping poor students, founded on the initiative of the Madeiran law student Feliciano Augusto de Brito Correia.
The initiative for founding this benevolent society, which has rendered so many services to poor students, is owed to Feliciano Augusto de Brito Correia, a law student and native of Madeira. The student meeting at which the organisation of the society was first discussed took place on 23 December 1849, and the same student was elected a member of the committee charged with presenting the outline of the statutes that were to govern the new association. The Sociedade Filantrópica Académica had its statutes approved by the government only on 26 May 1852.
Dr Feliciano Augusto de Brito Correia was deputy crown prosecutor in Funchal. He died on 9 January 1871, not quite 54 years old, having been born on 29 October 1817.
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- Coimbra
Portugal. University city where the society was founded.
Portuguese mainland university city where many Madeirans studied law or medicine, and where Padre Luís Gonçalves da Câmara taught and was rector of the Jesuit college. It hosted the 1921 academic table-tennis championship, and its dormancy and rainfall data are compared with Funchal's.
- Funchal
Where Brito Correia served as deputy royal prosecutor.
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 · 01- Feliciano Augusto de Brito Correia1817–1871
Madeiran law student who initiated the Sociedade Filantrópica Académica de Coimbra in 1849, later deputy royal prosecutor in Funchal.