Person mathematician poet actor
Luís da Costa Pereira
1818–1893
mathematician · poet · actor · theatre director
Funchal-born mathematician, poet, actor, dramatist and theatre director who taught at the Funchal Lyceum and later worked at the Teatro D. Maria in Lisbon, dying poor and forgotten. In Madeira he rehearsed the 1847 famine-relief play and was appointed president of the municipal council by the 1847 junta.
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- System of weights and measures — Member of the 1849 commission on weights and measures standards.
- Bulhão Pato — Madeiran figure mentioned in Bulhão Pato's memoirs.
- Political Parties — Madeiran adherent of the Regenerator party of 1851.
- Famine in Madeira in 1846 and 1847 — Rehearsed the charity play performed in Funchal in April 1847 for famine relief.
- Governing Junta of Madeira in 1847 — Appointed president of the municipal council by the 1847 junta.
- Theatre — Author of Rudimentos da Arte Dramática.
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