Funchal Society of Friends of the Sciences and Arts
Original title: Sociedade Funchalense dos Amigos das Ciências e Artes
Short-lived liberal learned society founded in Funchal in 1821–22, modelled on the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and dissolved with the absolutist restoration in 1823.
The society was founded in the Governor's Palace. Its first president was Dr João Pedro de Freitas Pereira Drumond and its first secretary Francisco Ferreira de Abreu. It had 28 full members and 24 honorary members, numbers that symbolised 24 August 1820, the day the revolution broke out in Porto, and 28 January 1821, the day Madeira followed suit. There were also corresponding members, 45 in number. The society's first public session took place on 23 August 1822.
The Funchal Society of Friends of the Sciences and Arts (Sociedade Funchalense dos Amigos das Ciências e Artes), modelled on the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (Academia Real das Ciências de Lisboa), was short-lived: it disappeared in 1823, with the restoration of absolute government on the island. Its statutes and regulations were printed in 1822 at the press of O Patriota Funchalense (‘The Funchal Patriot’).
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Time
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The Portuguese Liberal Revolution broke out in Porto on 24 August 1820, an event later commemorated on the medal of the Constitutional Monument in Funchal.
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Madeira adhered to the liberal revolution and the constitutional regime was solemnly proclaimed in Funchal, the square being renamed Praça da Constituição.
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The statutes of the Sociedade Funchalense dos Amigos das Ciências e Artes were printed at the press of O Patriota in Funchal, the first work printed in Madeira.
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The Sociedade Funchalense dos Amigos das Ciências e Artes held its first public session, of which the Patriota Funchalense published an account on 7 September.
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The Sociedade Funchalense dos Amigos das Ciências e Artes came to an end with the restoration of absolute government in 1823.
Place
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Abroad
- Porto
Portugal. City where the 1820 liberal revolution broke out.
A Portuguese city, where the 1820 liberal revolution began and whose district is the only one denser than Funchal's. Several Madeirans studied at its medical school or Academia Politécnica, and some lived or died there. The editor of O Funchalense Liberal was hanged there, and Marítimo beat FC Porto there in 1922.
- São Lourenço Palace
Funchal. Where the society was founded.
The Palácio de São Lourenço, the governors' palace-fortress in Funchal, was the scene of beija-mão ceremonies, receptions, balls and dinners, and of the 1861 exhibition. The Elucidário records a great fire there in 1699, a natural history museum in 1850, and an attempt by soldiers to enter it in 1829. The Teatro Grande stood opposite it.
People
People mentioned · 02- Francisco Ferreira de Abreud. 1842
First secretary of the society.
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First president of the Sociedade Funchalense dos Amigos das Ciências e Artes.