Caricature of Euclides da Cunha by Raul Pederneiras.

Euclides (sometimes spelled Euclydes) da Cunha (January 20, 1866 – August 15, 1909), was a Brazilian writer, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões (Rebellion in the backlands), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos. This book was a favorite of Robert Lowell, who put it above Tolstoy, though he only read it in the rather poor English translation. Image File history File links Caricaturaeuclides. ... Image File history File links Caricaturaeuclides. ... January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... // Literary Critics Alfredo Bosi (1936- ) Antonio Candido Otto Maria Carpeaux (1900-1978) Roberto Schwartz Silviano Santiago José Guilherme Merquior (1941-1991) Chroniclers Fernando Sabino (1923–2004) João Ubaldo Ribeiro Luis Fernando Veríssimo Mario Prata Rubem Braga (1913–1990) Dramatists Augusto Boal (1931-) Dias Gomes (1922-1999) Gianfrancesco Guarnieri... Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Canudos was a town founded in the Bahia state of northeastern Brazil in 1893 by Antonio Maciel, an itinerant preacher who had been wandering through the backroads and lesser-inhabited climes of the country from the 1870s onwards, followed by a band of loyal supporters. ... Robert Lowell Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. ...

Euclides da Cunha was also heavily influenced by Naturalism and its Darwinian proponents. Os Sertões characterised the coast of Brazil as a chain of civilisations while the interior was more primitively influenced. Naturalism refers to a number of different topics: Naturalism (philosophy): the view that nothing exists but the natural universe, either methodologically or ontologically — that there are no supernatural entities or at least no observations that show them to exist. ... In his lifetime Charles Darwin gained international fame as an influential scientist examining controversial topics. ...

Timeline

• January 20, 1866, Euclides da Cunha was born in in Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he lived until he was three years old.
• 1886 - Attended Escola Militar da Praia Vermelha, a military school in Rio.
• 1888 - Expelled from the military school, due to his participation in an act of protest during a visit of the Brazilian War Minister, Tomás Coelho, who was a member of the last Conservative cabinet the Brazilian monarchy.
• 1889 - Admitted again to the Escola Militar.
• 1891 - Admitted to the Brazilian War School (Escola de Guerra).
• 1896 - Discharged from the Army in order to dedicate himself to studying civil engineering.
• 1897 - Accompanied the Army in the Campanha de Canudos, against a rebellious group of peasants under the leadership of Antonio Conselheiro. Between 7th of August and 1st of October, he was in the hinterland, as war correspondent for the O Estado de São Paulo newspaper.
• 1903 - Elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy of Letters).
• 1903 - Established the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico, the Historical and Geographic Institute
• 1909 - Admitted as chairman and professor of Logic at the Colégio Pedro II, a public secondary school in Rio.
• August 15, 1909 - Assassinated, in a duel, by a young Army lieutenant, who was the lover of his wife, in Piedade, Rio de Janeiro.

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Works

• 1902 Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands)
• 1907 Contrastes e confrontos, lit. Contrasts and Confrontations
• 1907 Peru versus Bolívia
• 1939 Canudos, diário de uma expedição - news articles published in the periodical O Estado de São Paulo
• 1967 Canudos e inéditos - news articles published by the periodical O Estado de São Paulo