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Albuquerque was born in 1867 in Recife, Pernambuco, the son of Doctor José Joaquim de Campos de Medeiros e Albuquerque. Initially homeschooled by his mother, he studied at the Colégio Pedro II and later in Lisbon.
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Albuquerque was born in 1867 in Recife, Pernambuco, the son of Doctor José Joaquim de Campos de Medeiros e Albuquerque. Initially homeschooled by his mother, he studied at the Colégio Pedro II and later in Lisbon.
Returning to Brazil, he studied natural history with Émilitary Goeldi and was tutored by Sílvio Romero.
He is famous for writing the lyrics of the Brazilian Republic Anthem in 1890. He founded and occupied the 22nd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1934. He was also the President of the aforementioned Academy in 1923.
In 1889 he published his first poetry books: Pecados and Canções da Decadência, of strong Symbolist influence.
With the proclamation of the Republic in Brazil, he was nominated a secretary by Aristides Lobo and a minister by Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães. During his last years of life, he would write for many newspapers, using pen names such as Armando Quevedo, Atasius Noll, J. dos Santos, Max and Rifiúfio Singapura.
He died in 1934.
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In 1888 he worked for the newspaper Novidades alongside Alcindo Guanabara, defending Abolitionist ideals.
