Raul Pompéia

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As per our current Database, Raul Pompéia has been died on 25 December, 1895 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

🎂 Raul Pompéia - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When Raul Pompéia die, Raul Pompéia was 32 years old.

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Raul Pompéia’s zodiac sign is Aries. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.

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Raul Pompéia was born in the Year of the Pig. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Pig are extremely nice, good-mannered and tasteful. They’re perfectionists who enjoy finer things but are not perceived as snobs. They enjoy helping others and are good companions until someone close crosses them, then look out! They’re intelligent, always seeking more knowledge, and exclusive. Compatible with Rabbit or Goat.

Best remembered by his famous novel "O Ateneu", a mixture of autobiography and fiction that tells about his school year during the first years of adolescence, Raul Pompéia is highly regarded as one of the most important writers of the classic Brazilian literature.

He was born in Rio de Janeiro in a household of means. At age 11, his father sent him to the aristocratic school institution Colégio Abílio - which formed the basis for his future novel "O Ateneu".

In 1880, at age 17 he wrote his first novel "Uma Tragédia no Amazonas", which went unnoticed by the public. Some time later he goes to the law school at Faculdade do Largo São Francisco, in São Paulo.

His conflicting and progressive ideas in favor of abolishing slavery and the end of monarchy isn't seen with good eyes by the academics, so he's constantly failed in exams again and again...but gained some friends too such as Luis Murat, an intellectual with similar thoughts.

Later on, he moves to another law school, graduates but never actually works as a lawyer. Instead, he takes several positions in many newspapers and it is in one of those, he publishes "O Ateneu" as a chronic.

In the following years, it became a full acclaimed novel.Now with a formed Republic and no longer a monarchy, Pompéia is chosen to be chairman of the Academia de Belas Artes (Fine Arts Academy). But due to constant rivalry and fights between sections supporting former first Brazilian president Deodoro da Fonseca and the then president Floriano Peixoto, that meant Pompéia wouldn't have an easy term while securing the art projects in Brazil, since he was truly loyal to Peixoto and because of that he gained many enemies and lost several friends.

By that time, he was the director of National Library. When Floriano Peixoto died, Raul Pompéia made an inflamed speech honoring the man during his funeral which enraged the crowd and the supporters of the new Brazilian president Prudente de Moraes, who followed a similar line as the first leader.

In 1895 he was fired from his position at the library, and to add to it, he was publicly humiliated by a critical article written by his old friend Luis Murat. A severely depressed Pompéia committed suicide on Christmas day at age 32.

The novel that brought him acclaim was made into a TV series in 1979 Memórias de Amor (1979).

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