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The 97-year-old essayist Eduardo Lourenço died this Tuesday in Lisbon, the source of the Presidency of the Republic confirmed to the Lusa agency.
Professor, philosopher, writer, literary critic, essayist, civic auditor, several times awarded and distinguished, Eduardo Lourenço was one of the most prominent thinkers of Portuguese culture.
Eduardo Lourenço Faria was born on May 23, 1923 in S. Pedro do Rio Seco, in the municipality of Almeida, in Beira Baixa.
Graduated in Historical-Philosophical Sciences from the University of Coimbra, in 1946, he began his career there, as an assistant and as an author, with the publication of “Heterodoxia” (1949).
The functions of Reader of Portuguese Culture would continue, in the universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg, in Montpellier and in Brazil, until settling in the French city of Vence, in 1965, with pedagogical activity in the main French universities.
He was a cultural advisor to the Portuguese Embassy in Rome. In 1999, he became a non-executive director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, which is in the process of publishing his complete work.
Author of more than 40 titles, he has always had “a disturbing look at reality”, as pointed out by his colleagues.
“El Laberinto de Saudade”, “Fernando, Rey de Nuestra Baviera” are some of his main works.
Eduardo Lourenço received the Camões Award (1996) and the Pessoa Award (2011).
Among other distinctions, he received the insignia of Grand Officer and the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Sant’Iago da Espada, the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique and the Grand Cross of the Order of Freedom.
He was an Officer of the National Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters and of the French Legion of Honor.
“In fact, I talk about myself in all the texts,” Eduardo Lourenço said about his work, quoted by the National Culture Center, in the pages he dedicates ‘online’. “Each of the topics that interest me would occupy several people throughout my life. [Mas como] I do not have a heteronymic vocation, I have tried to find a link between my different approaches to reality ”.
This Wednesday, in memory of Eduardo Lourenço, a mass is celebrated at 12 noon in the Jerónimos Monastery celebrated by Cardinals D. Manuel Clemente and D. Tolenrtino de Mendonça
