Alexandre Herculano and the historian’s construction

This article aims to track the history of the Portuguese historian Alexandre Herculano, his education and career choices. For this purpose, we emphasize his early years of learning and the importance of his exile experience, before entering his professional development and the junction of his affair...

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Autor: Tasca, Michelle Fernanda
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP)
Repositorio:História da Historiografia
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br:article/1136
Acesso em linha:https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/1136
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Portuguese historiography
19th century historiography
Alexandre Herculano
Historiografía portuguesa
Historiografía del siglo XIX
Historiografia portuguesa
Historiografia do século XIX
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Resumo:This article aims to track the history of the Portuguese historian Alexandre Herculano, his education and career choices. For this purpose, we emphasize his early years of learning and the importance of his exile experience, before entering his professional development and the junction of his affairs as librarian and historian. We want to show the conciliation between the two stages, while discussing the construction process of the 19th century historiography — when a historian, in order to write his historic summary, should firstly gather the necessary materials through unremitting researching, cataloging and studying documents that had not been properly handled to serve such purposes. Finally, we show how Alexandre Herculano was read over the years and the change of the analytical studies’ critique perspective