Date of birth: Rogalin, 1592. Date of death: Gdansk, 1656. Military man of Polish origin. He traveled to Brazil as a captain in the service of the West India Company in 1630. He participated directly in the expansion of the territory, intervening in the conquest of Paraíba in 1634 and in Arraial do Bom Jesus, …
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Georg Marcgraf (Markgraf or Marcgrave)
Place and date of birth: Liebstadt, Germany, 1610 Place and date of death: Angola, 1644 An astronomer, cartographer and naturalist, he was in Brazil between 1638 and 1644. He participated in 7 expeditions that allowed him to carry out a detailed topographic survey between 1640 and 1642. And, after his death in 1644, the WIC …
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Luís Antunes
Birth: 1555, Évora. Apothecary. Link to BRASILHIS Database: https://brasilhis.usal.es/es/personaje/luis-antunes Apothecary of Portuguese origin. He worked and lived in the city of Olinda, in Captaincy of Pernambuco. His apothecary shop and dwelling were located in front of the town’s Misericórdia. He also worked as a trader and sugar loader. The apothecary Luís Antunes, a new Christian, …
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Felícia Lobo
Date of birth: Salvador, ca. 1570. Date of death: unknown, s. XVII. Heiress of the powerful Barros Lobo clan, from Bahia, the relevance of Felícia Lobo lay in the meticulous execution of her four marriages, marrying the first two times with prearranged men to increase and secure her family’s wealth, and the last two to …
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Fadrique de Toledo Osorio
Felix Castello – Retrato de D. Fadrique de Toledo en la pintura Recuperación de la Isla de San Cristóbal Lienzo. 297 x 311 cm. Museo del Prado. Birth: Naples, ca. 1589[1] Death: Madrid, December 11, 1634. I Marquis of Valdueza, Captain-General of the Royal Army of the Ocean Sea and General Captain of Gente de Guerra in …
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Manoel Vaz Pereira
Place of birth: Lisbon. Major Physician in Bahia. Physician in Olinda. Link to BRASILHIS Database: https://brasilhis.usal.es/pt-br/node/2164 Physician of Portuguese origin. He studied at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Évora and at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Salamanca. Bachelor of Medicine in 1600, by de University of Salamanca. Major Physician of …
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Baltasar Teixeira
Date of birth: 1593, Village de Amarante, Bishopric of Porto. Surgeon Link to BRASILHIS Database: https://brasilhis.usal.es/es/personaje/baltasar-teixeira Surgeon of Portuguese origin. Lived and worked in the city of Lisbon and in the village of Amarante. He was a Mayor Surgeon of the Navy, had fought and practiced his profession in Brazil on several occasions. He belonged to …
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Diogo de Campos Moreno
Date of birth: 1566, Tangiers or Ilha Terceira Date of death: date and place unknown Sargento Mor of Brazil. Link to BRASILHIS DATABASE: https://brasilhis.usal.es/es/personaje/diogo-de-campos-moreno Diogo de Campos Moreno, an essential figure in the first two decades of the 17th century in Portuguese America, was Sargento Mor of Brazil. He was born in 1566 in Tangiers …
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Fray José de Pernambuco (José Ruiz)
Place and date of birth: Olinda (Pernambuco, Brazil), 1609 Place and date of death: Bemba (Congo), 1653 Catholic missionary and teacher of the first religious schools for nobles in the capital San Salvador del Congo. Due to his knowledge of several languages, he participated in the first Kikongo/Spanish/Latin dictionary. Database Brasilhis: http://brasilhis.usal.es/es/personaje/jose-ruiz-jose-de-pernambuco Africa’s connection from …
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Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen
Place and date of birth: Dillenburg, 1604. Place and date of death: Kleef, 1679. Job title and main information: Ensign in the cavalry of the Army of the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (1621-1626). Captain in the Army of the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (1626-1629). Colonel in the …
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