Manuel Raimundo Querino
Brazilian writer
Intro | Brazilian writer | |
Places | Brazil | |
was | Writer | |
Work field | Literature | |
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Birth | 28 July 1851 | |
Death | 14 February 1923 (aged 71 years) |
Manuel Raimundo Querino (July 28, 1851 - February 14, 1923) was a Brazilian scholar of African descent. He was a student and founder of Liceu de Artes e Ofícios da Bahia and the Escola de Belas Artes and was a pioneering writer of Anthropology of African Culture in Bahia.
Querino was born in Santo Amaro, Bahia. He was orphaned by the cholera epidemic of 1855. So from the age of four, he started living with a Professor of Normal School Of Salvador, Manuel Garcia.