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University of Porto Famous Alumni

Fernando Pires de Lima

Fernando Pires de Lima 1908-1973 Doctor, writer and ethnographer

Fernando de Castro Pires de Lima was born in Porto on 10 June 1908, to the distinguished family Pires de Lima, descendents of 17th century farmers from Carreço, in the council of Viana do Castelo, Minho. He was the son of Dr. Joaquim Pires de Lima (1877-1951) and Maria Henriqueta da Silva e Castro, and brother of Maria Clementina.

He majored in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. He was an Assistant Physician at Santo António General Hospital and Director of Infirmary, Professor of Hygiene at the Music Conservatory of Porto and Director of the Popular Library and of the Popular Medical Archive. As an ethnographer, he chaired over the Institute of Ethnography and directed the Museum of Ethnography and History of Porto.

Fernando Pires de Lima wrote many books, among which "A Metafísica perante a inquietação científica" (1937), "Cantares do Minho", in 2 volumes (1937-1942), "Tradições Populares de Entre-Douro-e-Minho" (1938), "Romanceiro Minhoto" (1943) and "Nossa Senhora de Portugal" (1947), co-authored with his father (1947); "O Vinho Verde na Cantiga Popular", co-authored with his sister, Maria Clementina (1939), "Salazar no vértice de oito séculos de história", "O Simbolismo Cristão na Cantiga Popular" (1941), "Ensaios" (1943), "São João na alma do Povo" (1944) and "O amor na quadra popular" (1945).

He collaborated in scientific and periodical publications such as "Revista de Guimarães", founded in 1883 by Martins Sarmento Society, the "Revista Lusitana", set up by José Leite de Vasconcelos, where he wrote about ethnographical themes, and in the magazine "Revista de Tradiciones Y Dialectologia", of Madrid, in which he edited the study "Afinidades Galaico-Portuguesas no Cancioneiro Popular", [Galician and Portuguese affinities in the Cancioneiro Popular], for which he received an award from the Royal Galician Academy.

Pires de Lima was also a reputed conference lecturer and a member of national and international scientific and cultural associations: the Association of Archaeologists of the Institute of Coimbra, the Society of Anthropology and Ethnography of Porto, the Institute of History and Ethnography of Lisbon, the Institute of Anthropology of Paris, the Society of Folklore of Brazil, the Federation of the Academies of the Arts of Brazil, the Association of Medical Writers of Madrid, the Royal Galician Academy, the Seminar of Galician Studies, the Association of Journalists and Men of the Arts of Porto, the Academy of Sciences, etc.

He married Maria Adélia Barbot Ferreira (1915-2001) and the couple had a daughter, Maria Clementina Ferreira Pires de Lima, born in 1941.
He died in Porto on 3 January 1973.
(Universidade Digital / Gestão de Informação, 2009)