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Raul Pompeia

Died in 1895

Raul Pompeia was born in 1863 in Angra dos Reis, in the province of Rio, on 12 April according to Infopédia. A boarder at a school run by the Baron of Macaúbas, then a pupil at the Pedro II school, he studied law in São Paulo from 1881 and completed it in Recife. Won over to abolitionist and republican ideas, a journalist and caricaturist, he was appointed under the Republic professor of mythology at the School of Fine Arts, then director of the National Library. Dismissed following a speech, he took his own life in Rio on 25 December 1895.

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