Adelmar Tavares | |
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President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters | |
In office 1948 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Adelmar Tavares da Silva February 16, 1888 Recife, Brazil |
Died | June 20, 1963 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | (aged 75)
Adelmar Tavares da Silva ( Recife, February 16, 1888 – June 20, 1963 Rio de Janeiro) was a lawyer, magistrate, jurist, professor and poet from Recife. He was a member of Brazilian Societies devoted to criminology and law. As a poet he was respected with several of his poems becoming songs. In 1948 he became President of the Academia Brasileira de Letras. [1] [2]