Adolfo Coelho

Adolfo Coelho was born in Coimbra on 15 January 1847 and lost his father at nineteen months. Enrolled at fifteen in mathematics at the university, he abandoned it two years later and trained himself. A member of the generation of 1870, he delivered in 1871 the last of the Casino Conferences, on education, arguing for the separation of Church and State; he taught comparative philology at the Cours supérieur de lettres from 1878, was one of the first to study the Portuguese-based creoles, and organised a pedagogical museum in Lisbon. He died in Carcavelos on 9 February 1919.

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