O Prof. Doutor Costa Simões: o passado como exemplo no futuro
This is a monographic study by the author on Prof. António Augusto da Costa Simões, who was a professor at the Faculty of Medicine and rector of the University of Coimbra. He was the richest and most prominent personality who, over the centuries, was born and lived in the municipality of Mealhada an...
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Coimbra University Press
2025
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| Online adgang: | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/169016 |
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| Summary: | This is a monographic study by the author on Prof. António Augusto da Costa Simões, who was a professor at the Faculty of Medicine and rector of the University of Coimbra. He was the richest and most prominent personality who, over the centuries, was born and lived in the municipality of Mealhada and one of the most resplendent, with national and international renown, to pass through the intellectual circles of the city of Coimbra, which, in addition to being the stage and creator of his education, was also the main beneficiary of all his work, scientific and academic activity.
This study, dedicated to the life and work of Costa Simões, is divided into six chapters: the first traces the family origins of Costa Simões and the descendants of his parents and siblings to the present day, given that the Master died unmarried and without children; in the second chapter, entitled ‘The academic, the researcher and the scientist’, the author deals with the entire evolution of Costa Simões' diverse and magnificent scientific activity, embodied in 56 published works, and the reason why he was considered, at the time, the first Portuguese histologist and physiologist and the true founder of the first experimental school in Portugal; in the third chapter, reference is made to one of the most relevant facets of Costa Simões' personality and work, that of ‘reformer’, from which the municipalities of Mealhada, Coimbra and Ansião were the main beneficiaries; the fourth chapter discusses Costa Simões' political activity, for which he did not show much appetite, but nevertheless served as mayor of Coimbra and member of the Portuguese Parliament, of which he was vice-president; the fifth chapter refers to his activity as rector of the University of Coimbra, from which he was removed for political reasons, resulting from the turmoil of the time between the Regenerators and Progressives of the Constitutional Monarchy, the latter being represented by Cons. |
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