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Gilberto Freyre

Died in 1987

Gilberto Freyre was born in 1900 in Recife, the son of a judge who taught at the university according to Toda Matéria. He studied at Baylor, in Texas, then at Columbia, where he followed the teaching of Franz Boas, and returned to Brazil in 1923. A journalist and secretary to the governor of Pernambuco, he left for Lisbon after the revolution of 1930. Elected deputy to the Constituent Assembly in 1946, he later supported the Salazar regime, then the military coup of 1964. He died in Recife in 1987.

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