President Americo Tomas Succeeded by Jose Veiga Simao Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano | President Americo Tomas Role Historian Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano Name Jose Saraiva | |
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Full Name Jose Hermano Saraiva Born October 28, 1919Leiria, Portugal ( 1919-10-28 ) Spouse(s) Maria de Lourdes de Bettencourt de Sa Nogueira Died July 20, 2012, Setubal, Portugal | ||
Preceded by Inocencio Galvao Teles | ||
História Essencial de Portugal 1/6 - Prof. José Hermano Saraiva
José Hermano Baptista Saraiva • (3 October 1919 – 20 July 2012) was a Portuguese professor, historian and jurist. He was most known as a television personality in Portugal, having been the author and presenter of several documentary series of historical divulgation in the last decades.
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- Histria Essencial de Portugal 16 Prof Jos Hermano Saraiva
- Historia de portugal volume i das origens revolu o 1245 1248
- Biography
- Personal life
- Television shows
- References
Historia de portugal volume i das origens revolu o 1245 1248
Biography
Hermano Saraiva was a professor of law and business management. He was Minister of Education of Portugal between 1968 and 1970 and ambassador to Brazil between 1972 and 1974. He lectured in the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Política Ultramarina at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, and in private teaching institutes.
Saraiva is most famous in Portugal, but also among Portuguese communities around the world, on account of his television programs on the History of Portugal, broadcast by RTP. He was a member of the Sciences Academy of Lisbon, Portuguese Academy of History and São Paulo Historical Institute in Brazil.
Hermano Saraiva was distinguished with the Grã-Cruz of the Order of Public Instruction, Grã-Cruz of the Order of Prince Henry, the Grã-Cruz of the Order of Barão do Rio Branco of Brazil, the Grã-Cruz of the Ordem do Mérito do Trabalho and the Comendador da Real Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa.
His supporters point out his qualities as a television communicator and of spreader of the History of Portugal to the least instructed people in the country and to the Portuguese communities outside Portugal.
Personal life
Hermano Saraiva was born in Leiria, the third of the six sons of José Leonardo Venâncio Saraiva (born 1 April 1881, erudite and well known professor, Mayor of Leiria and Head Master of Liceu Passos Manuel in Lisbon) and wife Maria da Ressurreição Baptista Saraiva. Amongst his siblings is António José Saraiva, a known investigator in the area of literature, and his nephew José António Saraiva worked as a journalist and architect. One of his maternal uncles was the last living Portuguese veteran of the First World War.
Saraiva married Maria de Lourdes de Bettencourt de Sá Nogueira (born 16 May 1918), daughter of Rodrigo de Sá Nogueira (born 3 December 1892, a college professor and great-nephew of Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquess of Sá da Bandeira) and wife Maria Luísa Rodrigues de Bettencourt (married 20 November 1915), fathering five children.
Saraiva died, aged 92, in Setúbal.