Antônio Gonçalves Dias was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, ethnographer, lawyer and linguist. He is famous for writing the poem "Canção do exílio" - arguably the most well-known poem of the Brazilian literature -, the short epic poem I-Juca-Pirama, and many other nationalist and patriotic poems that would later give him the title of national poet of Brazil. He was also an avid researcher of the Brazilian indigenous languages and folklore.
Education
He began his studies in Brazil and finished at Coimbra, in Portugal, eventually becoming a professor of Latin and history at the College of Pedro II in Rio de Janeiro.