Afonso SCHMIDT

Background

SCHMIDT, Afonso was born on June 29, 1890 in Santos,, Säo Paulo, Brazil.

Education

Educated largely self-educated.

Career

In the city of Sao Paulo, he founded the newspapers, A Plebe and A Lanterna, along with legendary figures of the anarchist moviment: Edgard Leuenroth and Oreste Ristori. In the city of Rio de Janeiro, founded the newspaper A Voz do Povo, which, in time, became the press organ of the workers of the country. Writer extensively throughout his life, was the author of a vast literary and poetic work gathered in more than forty books and is also a pioneer of science fiction in Brazil.

He died in Rio de Janeiro, aged 73.

Membership

Member: Associaçâo Brasileira de Escritores (president, 1943), Academy Paulista de Letras, Sind, dos Jornalistas.

Connections

Father:

Joäo Afonso Schmidt

Mother:

Odila Pereira Bruncken

Spouse:

Adé- lia Leone Schmidt

child:

Vera de Arruda Camargo SCHMIDT

child:

Bruno SCHMIDT

child:

Sérgio SCHMIDT

child:

Aldo SCHMIDT