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ANDRADA E SYLVA, BONIFACIO JOZA

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ANDRADA, DIEGO DE PAIVA DE (1528—1575)

ANDRADA E SYLVA, See also:
BONIFACIO
BONIFACIO JOZA D' (1765-1838), Brazilian statesman and naturalist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

VILLA

Villa de See also:

SANTOS

Santos, near Rio Janeiro. In 180o he was appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology at See also:

COIMBRA

Coimbra, and soon after inspector-See also:

general of the Portuguese mines; and in 1812 he was made perpetual secretary of the See also:

Academy of See also:

LISBON (Lisboa)

Lisbon. Returning to See also:

Brazil in 1819, he urged Dom Pedro to resist the recall of the Lisbon See also:

court, and was appointed one of his ministers in 1821. When the See also:

independence of Brazil was declared, Andrada was made See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of the interior and of See also:

FOREIGN

foreign affairs; and when it was established, he was again elected by the Constituent See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly, but his democratic principles resulted in his dismissal from See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, See also:

JULY

July 1823. On the See also:

DISSOLUTION (from Lat. dissolvere, to break up into parts)

dissolution of the Assembly in See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November, he was arrested and banished to See also:

France, where he lived in See also:

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile near See also:

BORDEAUX

Bordeaux till, in 1829, he was permitted to return to Brazil. But being again arrested in 1833, and tried for intriguing on behalf of Dom Pedro I., he passed the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his days in retirement till he died at See also:

NICTHEROY, or NITEROY

Nictheroy in 1838.

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