Background
NEIVA, Arthur was born on March 22, 1880 in Bahia. Son of Joáo Augusto Neiva and Anna Adelaide Pago Neiva.
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Arthur NEIVA
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Arthur NEIVA, Brazilian physician, scientist, and public official National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (corresponding); Brazilian Academy of Sciences; Entomological Society of Washington; Entomological and Biological Societies of Argentina; Historical Institute of Bahia; Society of Medicine and Surgery of Sao Paulo.
Career
Technical assistant of the Bacteriological Laboratory of the Department of Public Health of Rio de Janeiro, 1906. Appointed assistant of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute of Rio de Janeiro, 1908. Commissioned by the director of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute to take part in a scientific expedition to Itapura and Mato Grosso.
Sent by the director of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute to undertake certain entomological investigations in Washington, District of Columbia, 1910.
Member of the scientific mission to the states of Bahia, Pernambuco, Piauhy, and Goyaz, 1912- professor (livre docente) in the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro, 1914 - founded a branch (later the Borges de Medeiros Institute) of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, 1914. Member of the Jury Committee to name the sanitary inspectors of the Department of Public Health, Rio. de Janeiro, 1915.
Organized and directed the sections on zoology and parasitology of the Bacteriological Institute of the Buenos Aires Department of Public Health at the invitation of the Argentine government, 1915-1916. Director of the Bureau of Sanitation (Servigo Sanitario) of Sao Paulo, 1916.
Named secretary-general of the First Conference of the South American Society of Hygiene and Microbiology of Buenos Aires by the Bacteriological Institute of Argentina, 1916.
Member of the committee named by the National Academy of Medicine of Brazil to organize the national medical library of Sao Paulo, 1918. Named official (chefe do servigo) of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, 1919. Invited to give a series of lectures in Japan by the Kitasato Institute, 1920.
Commissioned to study the sanitary organizations of Japan and the United States, and the prophylactic treatment of leprosy in Norway, 1920.
Director of the National Museum, 1923. Appointed chief of the committee to study the coffee blight by the government of Sao Paulo, 1925.
Director superintendent of the Biological Institute of Sao Paulo, 1928. Professor in the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, 1928.
Secretary of the Interior of Sao Paulo, 1930.
Appointed federal interventor in Bahia by Getulio Vargas, 1931. Director-general of scientific investigations of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rio de Janeiro, 1933. Delegate of Bahia to the Constituent Assembly of Rio de Janeiro, 1933.
Sometime director of the daily A Na(do of Rio de Janeiro.
Cofounder of the reviews Sciencia Medica and Boletim Biologico.
Membership
National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (corresponding). Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Entomological Society of Washington.
Entomological and Biological Societies of Argentina.
Historical Institute of Bahia. Society of Medicine and Surgery of Sao Paulo.
Connections
Married Justina Helh Neiva.
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Nationality
Brazilian