Francisco Teixeira De QueirozBorn Francisco Joaquim Teixeira de Queiroz (pseud. Bento Moreno), in Arcos de Valdevez, Minho, Portugal, on the 3rd of May 1848, and deceased on the 22 of July 1919 in Sintra, Extremadura, Portugal. Teixeira de Queiroz was a Portuguese writer, medica doctor, and politician, who produced a vast and significant literary heritage throughout the late XIX century and the beginnings of the XX century. Eminent figure in the turn of century, Teixeira de Queiroz is among one of the sometimes-forgotten authors of Portuguese Literature. Is path as a social intervenient goes way beyond his literary works, as he was a medical doctor and an elected politician in times of political change. He was alderman in the Lisbon City Council (1885) and a deputy at the National Assembly in the 1893 legislature, before the Republican Portuguese Revolution and the 5th October 1910 Proclamation of the Portuguese Republic, afterwards he became a republican deputy to the National Constituent Assembly in 1911, elected by the Aldeia Galega (now Montijo) constituency, but soon renounced, years later he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the first government presided by José de Castro in 1915. That same year he became president of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. His literary work was mainly composed of two different series, Comédia do Campo (Country Comedy) and Comédia Burguesa (Bourgeois Comedy), through which he wrote about the sensitivities of the Northern-Portuguese people and the landscapes of the Northern regions countryside, in particular Minho and its culture, but also about other parts, namely urban, of the small but historic southern European nation of Portugal. Read More Read Less