Background
SOUZA, Bernardino was born on February 8, 1885 in Vila Cristina, State of Sergipe. Son of Octavio de Souza Leite and Filomena Maciel de Faria.
SOUZA, Bernardino was born on February 8, 1885 in Vila Cristina, State of Sergipe. Son of Octavio de Souza Leite and Filomena Maciel de Faria.
Professor of geography, universal history, and the history of Brazil in the Ginásios Ypiranga and Carneiro Ribeiro, and in the Institute of Education, of Bahia: professor of universal history in the Official Institute (Ginásio da Bahia). Director of the Faculty of Law of Bahia. Secretary of the Interior, Justice, Education, Health, and Public Health of the State of Bahia, February to March 1931.
State deputy in two legislatures.
Chairman of the committees which constructed, by popular subscription, the following buildings of Bahia: Museum of the Independence of Brazil (Pavilhào 2 de Julho), 1918, edifice of the Geographical and Historical Institute, 1923, and edifice of the Faculty of Law, 1931.
Geographical and Historical Institute of Bahia (perpetual secretary). Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute: member of all other historical institutes of Brazil. Academy of Letters of Bahia.
Brazilian Academy of International Law.
Brazilian Educational Association. Decorations: Official of the Order of the Crown of Italy.
Married Maria Olivia Carneiro de Souza. Children: Maria Berenice, Sindóro, and Seleneh Maria.